Editing post seems permitted if system clock is set back

This topic was created by Waseem Alkurdi .

[Waseem Alkurdi]

Editing post seems permitted if system clock is set back

I've been doing some triple-boot (Hackintosh macOS - Linux - Windows) recently, and the time between the three is out of sync (the universal/local BIOS time issue in Windows) and I've noticed something weird:

I was replying to somebody's comment on a thread, and I've noticed that all the posts say "Just posted" as well as the stories on the main page. The Edit (X mins) buttons also had x=186 mins (in this case) (the clock was set back three hours as I live in a GMT+3 time zone).

Does it seem odd that time is measured on the user's side, not the server's side?

[Jamie Jones]

Re: Editing post seems permitted if system clock is set back

... It's ever since they switched to that annoying javascript bling that manipulates the date locally.

[diodesign]

I highly suspect it is enforced on the server-side - if you find otherwise, let us know.

C.