Am I correct that when viewing posts while logged into Livejournal the time stamps show when the post was posted in relation to your local time zone? For example, if I make a post at 1 am my time, someone logged in one time zone over would see it posted an hour earlier or later depending on their relation to standard world time? It seems to me that must be true, otherwise the Friend’s Pages would be all out of actual chronological order. You’d miss the posts of a friend living two time zones over if you read your Friend’s Page in your own two hour earlier time zone.

The reason I ask is as I was closing the browser window containing Livejournal’s response, I noticed it’s time stamp. It’s a little strange to me that the time stamp says it was posted 45 minutes after midnight, but it isn’t in chronological order on my Friend’s Page … stuck there between posts at 2:49 am and 4:08 am. And I can assure you that between midnight and 1 am, I was still refreshing both the Metafilter conversation and the front page of Livejournal with amazing regularity. That response wasn’t posted at 12:47 am my time or on anyone’s time in the USA. Just not possible. Makes it seem like it was back-dated (or back-timed actually) to make it appear, in the historical down-the-road sense and to people who hadn’t even noticed the brouhaha, that they responded much more quickly than they actually did. Though after midnight, a full day or so after the mess started, is still just a little too late in my book.

Let’s see … C-Net story breaks at 3:47 PDT and pretty early in the day. Then Anil Dash speaks out at Metafilter at 12:59 am and 1:00 am my time saying they would be responding “soon”. But somehow, the response was posted before Anil Dash ever commented at Metafilter, and just didn’t happen to appear on the LJ front page or my Friend’s Page until sometime around 3 am (my time - central)? You see the inconsistency, don’t you? I could probably flesh out the time line a little more, if I felt like bothering. I simply wanted to point it out, because that time stamp in the wrong chronological order on my Friend’s Page stands out like a sore thumb.

Just something I noticed. I notice inconsistencies in plot lines. I am a born continuity editor.