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Editing post seems permitted if system clock is set back

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?

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