Date last visited seems odd

[Wolfgang]

Hi,

I just visited this thread which was posted on 01-10-2010 03:10 PM, i.e. October.

It was kind of a surprise to see that the user who had posted this message was said to have last visited the forum on 01-07-2010 02:55 PM, i.e. 3 months before posting the thread... A miracle? I suspect that something with the international date settings might be wrong at Lithium...

Or did NI find a possibility to travel in time? Somehow I missed this announcement

Wolfgang

[JackDunaway]

I have noticed caching issues in terms of both user metrics and tagging. Check that same user's profile now... does it look right?

[Wolfgang]

Jack,

For your sake I have checked again - but it did not and should not make a difference: the last contribution to this thread is from 8th October...

Wolfgang

[JackDunaway]

OK, I can corroborate there's something fishy that user's last visited date. Enough time has elapsed that typically avoids caching latency.

[Ben]

If you look at the format of the posting you will see the "greater than"s that come from with a list server. I believe that some people read and reply to posts using that method and don't have to actually log-into the NI site.

Ben

[Wolfgang]

Ben,

Are you saying it's possibly to post to the forum without being logged in? This sounds even more surprising than the funny date...

[Laura F.]

There is an old newsgroup interface that some users occasionally use to post to the forums (also where a lot of spam comes from).  This user has logged into the web interface but for those most recent interactions, he used a news reader to post.

[Wolfgang]

Thank you, Ben and Laura, on the info about the possibility of using a newsreader - still the date displayed in this forum is wrong by at least three months ...