Friday, June 04, 2010

Problem with timing in Pending Proposals sidebar?

I just posted the Proposal ‘Unan1mous’.  Literally, just posted.  At 21:19 UTC, roughly.  Although it was a pretty short rule, it took me a while to find all the loopholes I could and fix them; about 58 minutes. 

But when I looked at the age of the post in the Pending Proposals sidebar, and looked at the POSTED AT time as well, for that matter, they both seem to have started counting from the time I opened up the Publish page in ExpressionEngine!  This could cause a really bad issue, where you can just keep the publish page open for a day or so and insert a proposal earlier in the queue than it should be!

Is there any way that problem can be fixed, or is there any reason why it doesn’t need to be fixed? 

(This post actually posted at 21:27:20 UTC; check against what it says below).

posted by h2g2guy at 04 Jun 2010 21:19:20 UTC Comments (3)

Comments

Hix:

04-06-2010 21:36:53 UTC

This is a known issue with Expression Engine blogging software.  If you want your timestamp to be at the moment of submission, go to the “Date” tab and click on the “Today” link under the Entry Date calendar just before posting.  You can set the timestamp on your post as you see fit, but you are on your honor not to do so with the intent to mislead.  See the Fair Play rules.

ais523:

04-06-2010 21:40:41 UTC

Yep, it’s a misfeature (for our purposes) in ExpressionEngine. Exploiting it deliberately is considered cheating; normally, if it gets exploited by accident we ignore it. (This probably means that the queue has been backed up for years due to a proposal adminned early by accident; but there’s really not much you can do about it.)

redtara: they/them

05-06-2010 14:30:22 UTC

We are very good at ignoring issues in our rules here.