Re: [WWdevel] maa webwork site? -- archived forum posts have bad dates.

[Arnold P. <ap...@ma...>]

Yep, sorry about that.  I looked at a bad example forgetting that I
had put all messages through 2006 in the archive but had put 2007
messages in the individual forums.  As you say in any event, the most
useful information is on the thread listing page.

Arnie

On 6/14/07, P. Gavin LaRose <gl...@um...> wrote:
>
> The date is in the message only for those messages copied from the old
> site, not for any message that was posted to the MAA site since the forums
> moved there.  In any event there are no usable dates on the thread listing
> pages of the forums, e.g.,
>    <http://webwork.maa.org/moodle/mod/forum/view.php?id=22>.
> Another example, a newer post with no date:
>    <http://webwork.maa.org/moodle/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=1497>
>
> Gavin
>
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>
> On 2007-06-14 [09:54] Arnold Pizer wrote:
>
> > On 6/14/07, Michael Gage <ga...@ma...> wrote:
> >
> > Mike writes "The newer posts from the last 6 months don't have any
> > dates."  Actually if you look at the message itself, the posting date
> > does appear near the top, e.g.
> >
> > user Michael Gage - WeBWorK in the Middle East  blueArrow
> > 1/3/2007; 8:33:31 PM (reads: 126, responses: 0)
> >
> > Arnie
> >
> >> I agree.  There is some hope that we can recover this eventually since
> >> I believe it is a one time data loss caused by the move.  The posts in
> >> the archive forum still have the date preserved on the internal data.
> >> The newer posts from the last 6 months don't have any dates.
> >>
> >> As I said I'm still saving all of the original forums -- it may be that
> >> we'll need direct access to the mysql database on the maa machine in
> >> order to transfer the posts over with data. Except for the archived
> >> posts there are only a few hundred entries so it could be done somewhat
> >> manually.
> >>
> >> Anyone have any suggestions?
> >>
> >> Take care,
> >>
> >> Mike
>


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