How are posts future-dated?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨forty2@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨support@lemmy.world⁩

I’ve sorted by All -> New and have been watching posts come in below these two that have a timestamp in the future. is this by design?

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givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They’re from another instance whose clock is set wrong.

Not just in a different time zone, but theyre not using the right time zone where they are so they just changed the time manually to compensate or something.

It used to happen a lot.

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- forty2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Gotcha, thanks
  
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TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Get a load of this guy, not living 2 hours into the future.

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- forty2@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Up to my eyeballs in time debt
  
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  - rdyoung@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Why does this sound like a Futurama quote?
    
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Xyre@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If they originate from kbin, it’s a known issue. The timezones aren’t properly set in the federated data.

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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Probably just a timezone issue. Instance you’re on could have a bad TZ, instance that had the post could have a bad TZ, or your local client may be wrong. Not the dev but TZs are just a pain in the ass

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