Never posted

[afuna_archive]

How do you respond to a request that was never actually posted?

Comments

[scaryjeff.livejournal.com]

Hehe, I saw that earlier today too, but on a different req. Never seen it before today though (no pun intended).

[afuna]

(no pun intended)

*snerk* suure.

Heh!

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

I've seen requests that were posted "0 seconds ago," so know what I think? You had experienced a temporal anomaly. XD

Re: Heh!

[afuna]

*cue eery background music*

(You know the creepiest thing? There's a pretty bad storm in the area right now. If the power goes out *knock on wood*, I will be extremely freaked out ;))

Re: Heh!

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

LOL!! XD Lightning strikes, and suddenly everything on LJ is rep-lagged!

Hrmmmm... that could be an interesting premise for a sci-fi horror movie or somesuch. >.> XD

[ripps818.livejournal.com]

Isn't it obvious, the LJ servers are stored in a different time-space continuum.

[afuna]

I was thinking that they could have been breaking the laws of physics but you know what? I prefer your explanation.

[tango.livejournal.com]

So 365 Main fails at supplying adequate backup power for their co-lo in all realities?:)

[iruka11.livejournal.com]

hahaha weird!!! and a little freaky.. O_o

[afuna]

;P

[pne.livejournal.com]

You've not been here long, have you :)

IIRC, it's got something to do with servers' clocks not being completely synced. I don't remember, though, whether "Never" only occurs when the calculated time is exactly -1 second (a kind of flag value) or anything < 0.

[afuna]

Only about six months on the board :-) It's my first time seeing this particular bug in action. (It is realy cute, for lack of a better term.)

[afuna]

Someone mentioned that they'd seen negative values before, so it's probably a flag value (-1?).

[raphaelcentauri.livejournal.com]

Don't you see?! That's how the bunnehs operate. They come at night. They open a time rift. They see when the new requests arrive. That's when they strike. That's why that request that's only 12 seconds old already has a screened on it. *nods sagely with a raised eyebrow*

[afuna]

Ooooooh.

(But how does it explain the sharks? ;))

[raphaelcentauri.livejournal.com]

Ah, see, the sharks don't need explaining, they work within the boundaries of time and space.