It turns out there are some disparities in timestamp handling across the sites that were broader than I was aware of. Summarized as follows:
EST = eastern standard time (no daylight savings time applied)
EDT = eastern daylight time (daylight savings time applied)
CST/MST/PST = central/mountain/pacific standard time
CDT/MDT/PDT = central/mountain/pacific daylight time
qanon.pub and anontools.xyz always use EST on the posts
qalerts.app always uses EST for posts 1 through 3018, posts 3019 and later always use EDT
qposts.online considers the time zone of the user's system and for posts 1 through 3018 shows the time in the standard time version of the users time zone, posts 3019 and later are shown in the users time zone with daylight savings applied
Which kinda blew my mind because lord only knows how many times I've searched timestamps on these systems and not understood that.
The most extreme consequence of this seems to be on say, post 3018, where the date of the post actually can change depending on your computer's time zone.
The good news is that if you carefully examine the timestamp, all sites seem to correctly show what they are using.
I'm in London which is +7 hours ahead of the USA east coast. I could never get excited about most of the posts and theories which depend 100% for their significance upon clock times.
I'm curious if there's some history to it but I kinda feel like it may have been a data processing inconsistency that started on one site and then the other copied it. My first thought was maybe it ties to the 4chan/8kun migration but that doesn't seem to be it.
Why wouldn't qanon.pub have done the same methodology otherwise?
When I started anontools I noticed some muckiness in the time formatting of some of the raw data sources (causing my q clock to be off) and noticed that if I started from scratch with the raw timestamps it fixed it.
The critical takeaway is to run your digs in multiple sites and compare. They all perform differently.
https://qalerts.app/?n=3019
https://qposts.online/?q=3019&s=postnum
https://qanon.pub/#3019
https://anontools.xyz/?d=3019
Something unexpected turned up to me from a thread by u/ValueFuckingDeep
https://greatawakening.win/p/16b6IFbG5u/2-elon-musk-3-year-deltas-to-the/
It turns out there are some disparities in timestamp handling across the sites that were broader than I was aware of. Summarized as follows:
EST = eastern standard time (no daylight savings time applied)
EDT = eastern daylight time (daylight savings time applied)
CST/MST/PST = central/mountain/pacific standard time
CDT/MDT/PDT = central/mountain/pacific daylight time
qanon.pub and anontools.xyz always use EST on the posts
qalerts.app always uses EST for posts 1 through 3018, posts 3019 and later always use EDT
qposts.online considers the time zone of the user's system and for posts 1 through 3018 shows the time in the standard time version of the users time zone, posts 3019 and later are shown in the users time zone with daylight savings applied
Which kinda blew my mind because lord only knows how many times I've searched timestamps on these systems and not understood that.
The most extreme consequence of this seems to be on say, post 3018, where the date of the post actually can change depending on your computer's time zone.
The good news is that if you carefully examine the timestamp, all sites seem to correctly show what they are using.
That is super interesting 🧐
I'm in London which is +7 hours ahead of the USA east coast. I could never get excited about most of the posts and theories which depend 100% for their significance upon clock times.
I'm in Thailand and finally figured that out a few months ago. I'm a slow bastard sometimes.
Most (all?) of the social media sites use your local time zone and aren't very explicit that's what they're doing.
So post 3019 forward are EDT DAYLIGHT savings time APPLIED. Is this the actual point in time we went dark to light?
I'm curious if there's some history to it but I kinda feel like it may have been a data processing inconsistency that started on one site and then the other copied it. My first thought was maybe it ties to the 4chan/8kun migration but that doesn't seem to be it.
Why wouldn't qanon.pub have done the same methodology otherwise?
When I started anontools I noticed some muckiness in the time formatting of some of the raw data sources (causing my q clock to be off) and noticed that if I started from scratch with the raw timestamps it fixed it.
The critical takeaway is to run your digs in multiple sites and compare. They all perform differently.
It's like an old fasion game of telephone. The message is never the same at the end
Ugh, I want to see but on mobile I can't read.
Keep clicking the title and eventually you'll get the direct image itself that you can zoom and pan around.