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Karyn
A Cake employee can reset it, but it only takes about a two weeks before its far enough out of sync to kill the edit grace period again.

The mystery is then - why haven't they set up Network Time Protocol, NTP, on this server?

Hello, Alex.

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Karyn
A Cake employee can reset it, but it only takes about a two weeks before its far enough out of sync to kill the edit grace period again.

The mystery is then - why haven't they set up Network Time Protocol, NTP, on this server?

I'm sure they have it could be that the physical CPU resources are over committed and the virtual machine is falling out of sync with the host. It is all just speculation though.

I often use notepad, if I intend to post something that is important to me or if I am angry. Then I copy and paste. I would think that would be a work around for this issue.

Paul P
 
My curiosity would like to know how it is possible that we have the only digital clock on the planet that can't keep time. 
 

I am curious about this as well, since this almost requires effort. I have started old gear/computers that had been running off its internal battery for years with less offset than this server gets in two weeks? Makes zero sense to me.

I'm missing something. The world is bigger than the USA alone. Therefore there are who has not been to a english school and for them it doesn't matter if there a grace period for 5 minutes or 5 days. It's hard enough to write something in english period. Perhaps some tolerance and appreciation for the effort will do some miracles.

Alex von Elzer
I'm missing something. The world is bigger than the USA alone. Therefore there are who has not been to a english school and for them it doesn't matter if there a grace period for 5 minutes or 5 days. It's hard enough to write something in english period. Perhaps some tolerance and appreciation for the effort will do some miracles.

Don't worry about that. Nobody is saying they expect everyone to type perfectly or speak perfect English. This is about a computer problem with the forum software.
 
Most of us try our best to understand and help people who speak other languages. At least I do.
 
Cheers.

"Just get your post right the first time in a text editor" - why? What difference does using a text editor make? You can still proof read the thing in the forum posting box before you hit send. The point is that many people don't even see errors until their post is up there on the screen without that flashing cursor distracting them. And it's not just typos or grammatical errors, it's sentences that you feel you could have worded better, points you feel you could have made more succinctly etc. Sometimes it takes a minute or two to see those improvements. 
 
So I agree that it should be fixed. But I would go one better than just reinstating the grace period. I think a far better system (and I've seen it on other forums) is that you can make all the edits you like until either:
 

• Someone else posts after your post
• Someone replies to (in this case "quotes") your post

The latter makes sense, because it's just bad forum etiquette to go back and edit a post after someone else has quoted it. I would be 100% behind a system whereby you can make all the edits you like until someone quotes you. Of course the forum software might not support that.  

mettelus

Paul P
 
My curiosity would like to know how it is possible that we have the only digital clock on the planet that can't keep time. 
 

I am curious about this as well, since this almost requires effort. I have started old gear/computers that had been running off its internal battery for years with less offset than this server gets in two weeks? Makes zero sense to me.

 
In many ways the standard of coding has been dropping consistently. Coders are doing some pretty amazing stuff these days but I feel like the simple little things are being neglected. I've seen simple operations like selecting and copying text deteriorate dramatically on my iPhone over the last couple of years. They've been concentrating so hard on all the new fangled advanced features that it's almost like they think the simple things are beneath them. 

yes, I miss that editing feature myself.

Test.
 
Edit: Test.
 
Edit Followup: Seems to the clock's been reset again so this can be marked solved... for a week or so anyway.
 
Still doesn't seem worth the bother to me.