[Bluebottle]

http://bluebottle.myfastforum.org...=12c6a73cd054acc9705dbbdacc08aad5

Mine is a very small forum
I've noticed that at least one member's 'last visit' date is being strange. It was showing Sept 8th from that date until last Sunday (October 11th) when it changed to Sept 10th! I don't know if that member actually logged in on October 11th, she didn't post. It's not the first time I've noticed such a thing on this members 'last visit' date, others seem ok.
So, my questions are... does this happen often? Can the date be altered by some outside influence? (If for example, someone else was using that members log-in and trying to hide the fact?)

Thanks!

[admin (no pm's please)]

Last visit date does tend to work  (or not) in mysterious ways, partially based on session cookies. I seemingly last visited here 2 days ago, a date that probably corresponds to me logging in from a different PC two days ago.

We are beginning to work through such issues in phpbb2, as it is no longer being maintained be the developers we now have freer reign to get down and dirty with the internals like that. A few weeks ago the cookie system for keeping tabs on what threads people have read was massively reworked to remove chronic bugs and to make it more efficient

[Bluebottle]

Thank you!
I guess then that if a member clears their cookies frequently then that can cause anomalies?

[admin (no pm's please)]

I'm not going to commit myself  

The code is complex but it may be something quite bizarre and trivial at fault. The key bug in getting to the first unread post in a phpbb2 topic was both blatant and easy to fix, I expect others were like me and bamboozled by some of the core complexity of the cookie code into thinking that things would be complicated and hard to fix and hence better left to the phpbb2 developers to sort out.

[Bluebottle]

 fair enough, many thanks anyway!