odd thread dates? why so cryptic?

Maybe it is just me...............but I don't understand what this means at the top of a post......EXAMPLE: posted on 093131p://41089 @ 09:41 AM

I know it used to be a date I comprehended so I knew how old a thread was......but I can't make heads or tails out of this current dating system...

I mean just LOOK at the so called ~DATE~ of this very post
~~~~posted on 113131p://551211 @ 11:55 PM~~~~
.....what in the world does THAT mean???
I GET the time stamp thats normal......

Would someone please talk me through this?



[edit on 123131p://581212 by theRiverGoddess]

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Which post did you see that on? I'd like to look at it. It may possibly be an error. The post above looks normal to me.

[edit on 12/9/2008 by ShAuNmAn-X]

Oh dear. You broke it...



When did the problem start?

Make sure the date format in your memcenter is correct. It should either be something like mm/dd/yyyy or you can leave it blank. When you put strange characters in there it will break...

I just want to test something...

Edit: visiting from the future to edit this message...


[edit on 9-12-2012 by Ian McLean]

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Your post itself looks fine; however, your edit reads "[edit on 123131p://581212 by theRiverGoddess]".

I see that every once in awhile, but only in peoples' edit lines. I'm not sure what causes it, but I can say that you're not crazy & hallucinating, or that we're both a bit crazy with hallucinations at times.

Well I know that every so often I have to go into memcenter to change my time zone back to GMT0... Every so often I go in there and find it at GMT+7 or something. Wonder if thats related.

its not on JUST my edit tags though....I see a strange collection of numbers on the top of all of your posts....left hand corner where the date aught to be....
Sheesh Its been almost a month....

I heading into uber memcenert now lolerz.....dur doop dee doop tra la la.

all fixed now.....I un-borked it
fini


Thank you ALL who helped me...........in this most auspicious hour.

Namast'e


[edit on 12/10/08 by theRiverGoddess]

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So your seeing something else up there??


It's because your special!

By the way, I have found documentation of all the characters that can be used in the "Date Format" box in MemCenter:
us3.php.net...

For example, I have set my Date Format to "D, M j Y" (without the quotes), and my date strings look like this:



Which is handy, to see the month spelled out, and with the day of the week, too.

You definitely have some kind of jibberish in the date settings part of your member center if I had to guess.

Go to your Member Center (when you don't have a new u2u in your box) and go down to the submit button. Now look up a few lines to where it says


Type the word weird into that field.

Then click this link and look at the date on that post.

It will say the following:



After you do that, just type D M j Y in there (copy and paste it just like that) and it will display the way Ian just showed us (which I love and am now using). Make sure you click submit when you're done.

PS. I have the answer.


The dead give away is the p://

thats the end of an http://

you put your avatar address in the wrong field at some point.

Wow, you can learn so much from this.

us3.php.net...

I think this explains why certain things on ATS display a date in 1969.

Now and Then & Ian, I fixed it, I really did
.....and once it was corrected ALL the messed yp dates changed into the way they are supposed to be, (fixed) so you can no longer see what was going on....you MUST rely on the copy pastes....as they have been fixed since stated above.

Hey Vagabond nice to see you

I messed up my time/dates, with avatar gibberish.....in my haste to post the cheerful Holiday Commode.

Move along nothing to see here...........


[edit on 12/10/08 by theRiverGoddess]