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Have you seen a question where all the answers are listed backwards?

For example, this one.

I was just trying to figure out where my second quality post is by googling site:www.woot.com for ") baqui63" and I stumbled over the question above. All of the answers are listed in REVERSE cronological order.

Methinks that deals.woot is having some significant database issues or some such.

by baqui63
asked 6 months ago

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from your link, the sorting order chosen to display is "recent first", so when i click your link example it shows the latest answers at the top which is weird. see at the end of your link where it says "?sort=newest"?
here's the same thread without a sorting order chosen

http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/e65354df-f204-45cc-8a31-f4a7fc007da8/will-the-world-end-in-2012#30

when i searched for that thread and clicked into it, it showed the regular sorting which is "oldest first"
where did you first click into that link from? google? if so, looks like the crawled page on google has the "newest first" setting chosen, who knows why

w00tgurl
6 months ago

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@w00tgurl:

Oh. Yeah. Duh. That didn't occur to me. At. All.

I definitely need some sleep.

I'm going to go away now.

baqui63
6 months ago

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@baqui63: it's cool. i mentioned your name in a deal, to test if your paging is working. no email? i'm not getting emails either, by mention or by thread subscription :(
this emails-getting-stuck issue happens every few months on deals.woot, though

w00tgurl
6 months ago

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sort=newest will cause the newest responses to be listed first, as opposed to the default sort=oldest.

At least some of the timestamps are wrong, though. (Notice that no hour value is greater than 12.)

2011-10-11T08:54:41Z
2011-10-11T08:57:15Z
2011-10-11T09:03:05Z
2011-10-11T09:07:41Z
2011-10-11T09:08:56Z
2011-10-11T09:26:58Z
2011-10-11T09:56:23Z
2011-10-11T10:12:05Z
2011-10-11T10:14:00Z
2011-10-11T10:23:03Z
2011-10-11T10:26:10Z
2011-10-12T12:09:05Z
2011-10-12T12:21:59Z
2011-10-12T12:22:27Z "What's a VCR?"
2011-10-12T12:40:59Z
2011-10-12T01:11:18Z "A VCR is..."
2011-10-12T01:30:50Z
2011-10-12T01:37:26Z
2011-10-12T01:45:36Z
2011-10-12T01:46:16Z
2011-10-12T02:29:48Z
2011-10-12T03:50:13Z
2011-10-12T04:10:23Z
2011-10-12T05:41:17Z
2011-10-12T05:55:20Z
2011-10-12T06:53:38Z
2011-10-12T11:28:51Z
2011-10-12T03:15:28Z
2011-10-13T11:34:17Z
2011-10-13T01:31:26Z

It makes sense in that order, but if arranged by timestamp, the answer precedes the question.

chris12345
6 months ago

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mathman05
6 months ago

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@chris12345:

Interesting... it looks like the code that generates the title tags for the comment timestamps uses a 12 hour format without an AM/PM indicator.

Good catch.

baqui63
6 months ago

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