posted 28-10-2002 19:01 GMT
It's because the actual time according to the server changes, and since the server belongs to the web hosts, it's their fault! :)The forum software allows me to set an offset, so I can add a number of hours to the time the server thinks it is, to get the time displayed to be GMT (rather than the server's time zone, which would depend on where it is... it's in Canada somewhere). To get GMT, this offset has to be either +1 or +7, depending what mood the server's in (or how often tera-byte keep fiddling with the configuration).
Complicated I know...
Messages have gone missing in the past when the server has run out of disk space, usually because the log files have grown massive, which is rather silly and something you'd have thought would be configured to be deleted more sensibly.