Discussion Topics and PM post date & times

13 comments

• DougS

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  17 years ago

  Founder: Excellent news! Thanks! Of course everyone will need to select their own time zone, but perhaps in the beginning, everyone's personal time zone could be defaulted to Eastern, since I think most members that I've communicated with on TUSCL are in that time zone. Or, maybe it would be less confusing to default everyone to Zulu/GMT (offset of 0).
• founder

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  17 years ago

  ok, now times are shown in GMT -5. Eastern US time. As soon as I can figure it out, I will give you the ability to change your time zone on MyPage.
• Clubber

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  17 years ago

  Three cheers for founder!
• DougS

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  17 years ago

  I think more than three cheers is in order!!! this is great! I am experiencing a big improvement already... its making it MUCH easier to determine what threads I need to read.
  
  THANKS!
• casualguy

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  17 years ago

  Thanks for fixing that. I was never interested in calculating what the actual time was even though it showed some time over in Great Britain I thought.
• Clubber

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  17 years ago

  DougS is correct. Many many cheers for founder. And he is also correct in how quickly the improvement worked!
• FONDL

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  17 years ago

  Founder, one other suggested improvement - maybe I'm the only one dumb enough to do this regularly but I've had to rewrite dozens of posts because I accidently clicked on "Back to Discussion Board" when I meant to hit "Post It." It would be great to have a warning pop up that says "Are you sure you want to go back to the discussion board?" when you've entered some text in this box but not hit "Post It." And I almost just did it again.
• DougS

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  17 years ago

  FONDL: I typically use the "back" arrow, to go back to the discussion board. I know, that's not what the programmer wants you to do, but hey, old habits! However, if you "back arrow" and realize you didn't POST, you can usually "forward arrow" and not lose what you had typed. Sometimes that works, sometimes it doesn't, but I think USUALLY it does work. (see, I guess that means you are not the only one doing that!)
• MisterGuy

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  17 years ago

  No pop-ups please...
• Clubber

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  17 years ago

  FONDL,
  
  Just put some white out over the [Back To Discussion Board] link.
• FONDL

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  17 years ago

  DougS, I've tried that and haven't had any success with it, usually the message I typed is gone. Maybe I'm doing it wrong. The funny thing is that the only times I forget to "post it" are when I've usually spent a lot of time writing something really long. Maybe I should just stop ding that.
• DougS

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  17 years ago

  FONDL: Are you using IE or FireFox? I believe FireFox is a little more forgiving. Also, another great advantge with FireFox is that it underlines misspelled words. Plus, if your system crashes - of FireFox takes a dump, the next time you start FireFox up, it will allow you to recover from where you left off. That happened to me yesterday, after partially typing another of my rambling posts, my computer rebooted. I was pissing and moaning about losing what I'd typed until I re-starter FireFox and I saw that I didn't lose ANYTHING! Way cool!
• FONDL

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  17 years ago

  DougS, I don't have any idea what you're talking about. I bought a laptop computer with MSN software already installed and I know just enough about it to do the few simple things that I want to do. I have no interest in understanding anything beyond that.