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Art

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I am having an annoying problem with the "Last Visited" function on a routine basis.

For some reason, the last visited time shows as about 20 minutes before the current log in time even though actual time of my last visit was a day or more in the past. And, no, I had not signed into the Marketplace or any other TUG functionality since the real time of my last visit.

Any suggestions on what I can do to get the last visit marker to behave? It is a pain to try to remember this on my own.

Art
 

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Why is that an issue? :shrug:
 

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note that the "last visit" feature is only a part of the forum.

logging in to the marketplace would have no relation.

this sounds like perhaps an issue with the time on your PC (daylight savings time/timezones?)
 

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I just logged in. My PC says it is 7:28 PM, 1/20/2015

"You last visited" says January 20, 2015 at 7:00PM. Or in plain English, 28 minutes ago.

I don't know if the TUG BBS uses the same software as FlyerTalk or CruiseCritic, but both of those report the correct time and date for the last visit, u, i.e., a day or two ago. That is a pretty good indication that it is a bug in the TUG software, not my computer.

FWIW, I am running Firefox Version 35. When I log in tomorrow, I will use IE 9 and see if I get the same strange behavior.

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If TUG were a Bank, Brokerage, Security trading firm then you have a serious problem.

Here we are talking about timeshares. What is the major problem here?

Just my 2 pennies:)
 

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Who cares? I have been using TUG for at least a dozen years and have never looked (or cared) when the website's clock says I have visited. Fwiw one of my credit cards says my previous visit it the exact one going on at that time. Really, is this important?

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I just logged in. My PC says it is 7:28 PM, 1/20/2015

"You last visited" says January 20, 2015 at 7:00PM. Or in plain English, 28 minutes ago.

I don't know if the TUG BBS uses the same software as FlyerTalk or CruiseCritic, but both of those report the correct time and date for the last visit, u, i.e., a day or two ago. That is a pretty good indication that it is a bug in the TUG software, not my computer.

FWIW, I am running Firefox Version 35. When I log in tomorrow, I will use IE 9 and see if I get the same strange behavior.

Art

certainly is bizarre for sure! wish I had a better answer for you lol

what is the timezone you have set in the bbs (user cp settings)
 

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Who cares? I have been using TUG for at least a dozen years and have never looked (or cared) when the website's clock says I have visited. Fwiw one of my credit cards says my previous visit it the exact one going on at that time. Really, is this important?

Jim

It only matters if one prefers to look only at topics with new posts since one's last visit.

On most bulletin boards the last visit flag is used to determine which topics are highlighted/bolded to show that they have new content since the user's previous visit..

This saves the aggravation of reading through posts on a topic to find the ones that haven't been read already.

Art
 

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What if you click on New Posts, or Today's Posts?
 

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It only matters if one prefers to look only at topics with new posts since one's last visit.

On most bulletin boards the last visit flag is used to determine which topics are highlighted/bolded to show that they have new content since the user's previous visit..

This saves the aggravation of reading through posts on a topic to find the ones that haven't been read already.

Art

That would be really annoying for the reason stated above. I sometimes go for weeks without logging in to the bboard. If I know I won't get through all unread posts of interest, I write down the Last Visited date and time so I don't have to view repeats when I come back next.

Fortunately the function is working fine for me.

Sheila
 

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Hi Art. I can understand why this could be a problem and the only thing I can think of might be that you have TUG set as a home page that triggers the last visit time to your browser start up time. I don't know if there is a setting on the V bulletin software that could cause the problem, but if I see something I'll post again.
 

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Crazy.

I went away for two weeks and when I returned, the last visit flag was working.

Since it starting working on my first use back home, something subtle in the system must have changed since there was no chance for anything to change on my PC.

Art
 
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