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Dirk replied on August 02, 2008 07:28 to the problem "Tweet timestamps are off by hours" in Twitter:

Mine are out by exactly 5 hours. My timezone setting in Twitter makes no difference. Very annoying.

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A comment on the problem "Tweet timestamps are off by hours" in Twitter:

Would you mind elaborating on how exactly this is related to the problem which is being discussed here? – Scytale, on June 28, 2008 21:00

George replied on June 28, 2008 20:56 to the problem "Tweet timestamps are off by hours" in Twitter:

Occasionally TWINKLE locates me in Italy and not Stafford Va.!

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Scytale replied on June 28, 2008 17:37 to the problem "Tweet timestamps are off by hours" in Twitter:

It's not only off by hours, I've got a tweet that's nearly off by a *year*: http://twitter.com/Scytale/statuses/8...

My next tweet, posted about 5 minutes later, has the correct time though: http://twitter.com/Scytale/statuses/8...

The difference between those two tweets might be that the first one was sent via m.twitter.com while the second one used the "normal" web interface.

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Chris reported a problem in Twitter on June 27, 2008 17:45:

Tweet timestamps are off by hours

The JSON data that is used for including Twitter data on a website is sending incorrect time information. For a tweet that I made just now, at 1:49 PM EST (-0400) the data is:

"created_at":"Fri Jun 27 12:49:03 +0000 2008"

This is plainly wrong. If it's UTC then I'd expect it to be 5:49 PM.

It should be noted that this incorrect time is *also displayed on the website* leading me to believe there are some funky math problems going on in a more central location.