When it rains it pours...

Jebus H Christ! What a fucking nightmare!

Here I sit for over a half hour listening to the goddamn Comcast muzak waiting for the human to answer. Did I mention how much I hate Comcast? And not only because they’ve a complete monopoly on DSL service in the Twin Cities.

This all started because I’ve been busy upgrading everyone’s sites from Drupal 4.6 or 4.7 to Drupal 5.X. And we all get a fancy and shiny new look to go with it. As I’m doing one site full of events, I notice that even though MySQL is storing the correct timestamp, Drupal isn’t displaying it correctly. A week ago, this kept me up all night trying to figure it out.

Then I learn the issue is really a bug in the way php 4.0.1 (which is what was on my server) dealt with the date() function. Soon I realize that I can’t use any of the fancy new php 5 functions either because my server software is woefully out of date. Even online forums were nearly useless, because they’re all discussing php 5 as well. read more »