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Incorrect post times are shown
Sometimes in the Puzzles incubator, post times are incorrectly shown.
Here is an example from my Where is the large cook promotion post.
Under Lundin’s answer there are some comment threads (with incorrect times) as captured in the first spoiler block below.
When I select Show thread, the apparently correct times are shown as captured in the second spoiler block below.
Incorrect times (Comment threads)
Apparently correct times (in Show thread)
1 answer
I've since seen the same problem in a comment thread on Code Golf Codidact, so this is not specific to the Proposals community.
Inline thread shows incorrect relative time
Thread page shows correct relative time
Note that the absolute timestamps that show up on hover are identical, and correct (I posted the comment 2 days ago).
I'm using Firefox on Fedora Linux.
I saw this seconds after navigating to the page. It had not been open for 2 days (as was my first thought when seeing the problem described in the question).
Refreshing the page did not change the incorrect "5 minutes ago" (even several minutes later). Even a hard refresh (Ctrl-Shift-R) did not change this from "5 minutes ago". Viewing in a private browsing window did show the correct "2 days ago". Viewing on mobile (Firefox on Android) showed the correct "2 days ago".
Having seen the correct "2 days ago" in private browsing and on my phone, I went back and hard refreshed again and the page I originally saw "5 minutes ago" still showed "5 minutes ago".
Opening the same page again by pasting in the URL in a new tab in the same window (not a private browsing window) gave the incorrect "5 minutes ago" again.
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