Numbers

[Chuba]

What is with the random numbers appearing recently on the homepage???

[fluffy_phreak]

What is with the random numbers appearing recently on the homepage???

is it a visit counter , or a date marker ?? i notice that it has the same format as the dates appear when quoting posts.

[Raptor]

Maby there phone numbers 
1166247885

I don't think 1 billion 116 million people Go in the site...

[rbcp]

They're timers.  I attached them to the end of most of the PHP scripts on the page, hoping to see which of my scripts were slowing down the site.  I don't know what the beginning numbers mean, I just know the last few represent seconds.  Take the number in the title bar and subtract it from the number on the bottom and that's how many seconds it took for the page to load.  This morning it was taking 20 - 30 seconds. 

[frog]

At least for the final four digits, they all count seconds.

On December 14 at 04:41:47 server time, the number was: 1166143149.
On Devember 16 at 10:28:00 server time, the number was: 1166290000.

It's decimal, not hexagesimal, so if you try to count them by sixties you'll get something like the wrong answer.

Anyways, the central two digits, 14 and 29, have a difference of 15. If you take 150,000s and divide it down to hours, you get 41 and a half. The difference between the data was 54 hours, though, so there might not be the same relation between the central two numbers as there is between the final four. And it's clearly not just a seconds counter, unless it started with a HUGE displacement, because that many seconds would fill up 37 years.

I propose Arbie tells us the function for the timer.

[rbcp]

I explained the function of the timer!

If you Google time(); and PHP, you'll probably get an explanation of what it's doing.  I think if I put values inside those parenthesis, I could have a properly formatted time.  I don't think the date would be in there since that would probably be covered by the date(); command.  But that's just a guess.

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The other day I saw my number on the site funny that somehow I've got scared.