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Twistedweather, you often come across as argumentative and abrasive whenever I've seen you post.

SHS' is usually pretty direct and to the point. However, I can recall very few situations in which I've read anything by the phpbb team where I wouldn't have been at least as abrupt with people ...

It's become known as a "gold" release because in the world of mass-reproduced media the original master copy of the product that all the copies are taken from could be made of gold (which is very resistant to corrosion and weathering effects).

I was under the impression I'd seen Ashe on years ago?

Gnarls Barkley nicked him...

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code reader wrote: people using windoze as a testbed will not notice it, as there is no file ownership on this platform.

There is file ownership on the NTFS, but windows being windows it doesn't pay much attention to it unless you tell it to.

I dread to think what some people's sleep patterns will be like with the advent of quantum computing...

I agree, and that's a great philosophy, which has kept phpBB bloat-free. However, I don't look at this as bloat. I know I keep calling my code a feature, but I don't even think it's much of that either. The 'feature' of displaying the date a post was made has been a core part of phpBB since Version ...

Why not employ the same tactics as others :) If you want to look like your on a par, adjust your version numbering to suit. Unless theres a phpBB 3.0 around the corner which would be released this year, I'd say a 2.2 makes phpBB look like a mainly idle product. Invision recently adjusted their ...

@Klors:
Firstly I have to thank you for your patience in responding. ;)
No problem, you too, always nice to have a discussion for more than 2 posts that doesn't descend into "well you're just a poo-head" kind of arguments.
The fact that it's daylight savings does have relevance. If I live in ...

This is a tough way of discussing things. You're talking from the starting point that this way the handling of the post times is done in a proper way. I constantly say that that doesn't apply to people who live in a country where DST is used, because it's inaccurate for half of the post times. How ...