Don't show backdated entries on Latest Things

[katherine]

Title:
Don't show backdated entries on Latest Things

Area:
entries, latest things

Summary:
Don't show backdated entries in Latest Things.

Description:
So far as I can tell, posting an entry backdated means it doesn't show up on reading lists, but it does still show up on latest things, arranged by when posted, not by the date and time set in the backdating. This doesn't seem consistent to me.

I have no idea of the technical reasons or difficulties, I admit!

Poll #5180 Don't show backdated entries on Latest Things

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 58

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Should be implemented as-is.
46 (79.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (1.7%)

(I have no opinion)
11 (19.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[marahmarie]

Thank you for this comment, since I was wondering what the heck was up with the posting dates on my Reading page on Nov. 25th. The dates went like this:

top post - Nov. 25th at whatever:am
next post - Nov. 25th at whatever:pm
next post- Nov. 26th at whatever:am
next post - Nov. 26th at whatever:am
next post - Nov. 26th at whatever:am
next post - Nov. 25th at whatever:am
next post - Nov. 25th at whatever:pm (ditto next three posts, all dated Nov. 25th)

I was sitting here rubbing my eyes trying to figure out if I was seeing things, but I guess I wasn't. I can't recall if the out-of-order (Nov. 26th) posts were from comms or not, but either way, your explanation clears up a lot of my initial confusion over that. :)

[azurelunatic]

It could very well have been regular users in a different time zone. Looking directly at a single personal journal, you'll always see the entries in order by user-set time (except for the sticky), but when viewing a community's main page directly, say http://dw-news.dreamwidth.org, if fu made an entry on November 30th in her time zone, and a few hours later denise made an entry on November 29th in her time zone, denise's would show up as the most recent, having hit the server most recently, although on the calendar view, it would show up according to the dates that fu and denise had set.

[marahmarie]

Because the servers are state-side (here in the US), right? This is one of the biggest ah-ha! moments I've had all year. Thank you again for this, it's all making sense now!

[azurelunatic]

The servers run on UTC (more or less London standard time), although they are state-side. So when an entry hits the servers, the time it comes in, in UTC, is logged, and then that time is used when building the reading page, the recent entries page of a community, and the Latest Things page.