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Inquiring minds want to know.

I've looked in the FAQs and couldn't find a definitive answer for this. So, the big question is, when is the "Daily Hits" count reset?

Teddie

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And the answer is....

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Yes!

Yes, the daily hits counter is reset.

 

 

We've been running this software for years and I still haven't figured out exactly when it's reset. It ought to be at midnight New Jersey time but it does not seem that it is. Midnight Zulu? Maybe. It actually appears to drift a bit and I suspect that it is reset by some internal mechanism that has no set time to run but is run when the servers get a free moment near the top of some hour after midnight in New Jersey.

The hit counters, btw, represent a significant overhead for the software and FictionMania, for example, was forced to do without them long ago. The Kudos counter is similarly a resource suinoid.

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

Not Zulu

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If by Zulu you mean UTC.

From a UK perspective it seems to be reset sometime during the day, but it can vary (and does) from breakfast time to early evening. I'm not being more specific than that :)

We're ~5 hours ahead of NJ but that wouldn't give you midnight. I suspect, as you do, that it is a background task done when the load is light.

Penny

About a year ago

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it used to happen at 07:00 BST (06:00UTC)
Now? {puts finger in the air and guesses}
Samantha

So maybe in the interest of

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So maybe in the interest of saving some cpu cycles and memory, eliminate the hit counter here? I think most of us know that "hit" or "read" numbers don't mean much, since so many things increment those numbers without actually representing a new reader of the page. Kudos on the other hand are valuable, so those we need to keep!

Kris

{I leave a trail of Kudos as I browse the site. Be careful where you step!}

Not so

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Actually, the hit counter is of some interest to me. I usually check daily and it enables me to see if people are still reading my stuff. I'm not interested in actual numbers, just zero or non-zero (usually).

This is because almost half my present output is chapters of SEE, WMD, AOJ and other related Anmar stories. I am constantly amazed how many people are still making what must represent a considerable investment in their own time to read and re-read them, even two years after SEE was finished (including myself).

Almost every day I can see that at least four people are reading different parts of SEE. As an author, I couldn't really ask for anything more. As an author, though, I know that I have set myself a standard for future efforts which could be hard to maintain.

Penny

Dialogue

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Er, excuse me, I've been meaning to ask this question ever since I posted my first story and now I'm as mad has hell cos Teddie got there first, I'll get you for that one day.

Now if it's a problem and taking up too much comp time and space, I can help. As a retired ex human I have time on my hands and I also own a Timex Everite watch, circa 1952. I would be happy to reset the time for you at no charge. I can guarantee 100% accuracy cos not only was the Timex renowned for its accuracy, I keep mine running 24 hrs late to fool the hackers.

I'm also old enough to remember gas lamps in the streets where I lived, (quite often in a non bomb damaged house). Rather than run your servers and stuff on electricity, have you not considered switching to gas because the geezer wot came round every night to pull the little chain that lit the gas lamp was always on time and never missed a day.

Wrinkly Frances.

Frances

Invented?

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As anyone ever invented gas-tronics? Like electronics, but run on natural gas instead? Ones would be miniature flames, and zeros their absence. A gas version of a transistor?

Come to think of it, light versions of everything would be less polluting.

-- Daphne Xu

Big Closet Time

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Does seem to be in a Timezone all of its own.
I know that my systems are sync'd to an Atomic Clock but when posting here, I always see a difference between the recorded time of the post and the time on my system.
I did query this with Erin some years ago but it should be pretty trivial to setup a system to keep it's clocks aligned with a real timezone.
Pretty well every system I've worked on in the past 25 years has this feature built-in to the OS/Distro.

Nukular?

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The SERVER is synced to the atomic clock in Annapolis, the software seems to have a mind of its own. :)

Hugs,
Erin

= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.

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