Lakeshore

Has anyone gotten to the bottom of the bogus LJ time settings problem? Or even been able to reproduce it consistently enough to file a trouble ticket? Here's what I know now:

• Sometimes (but not always) when I use my browser make an LJ post at http://www.livejournal.com/update.bml after an extended period of idleness, LJ will insert a bogus date/time stamp several hours or more in advance of my computer's clock time.


• I think this might somehow be related to the autosave feature of prior drafts, but cannot demonstrate this.


• Because it's my first post in a while, I don't notice the date/time being advanced.


• If I make a second post in a reasonably short time, it will populate the date/time fields with the current, correct clock time from my computer, but the LJ server will then reject that as a backdated post, throwing me an error which forces me to postdate my post to fall after the prior bogus date.


• No way in hell am I ever going to remember to check for correct dates when making that initial LJ post, and I shouldn't freaking have to.


• It's not consistent. I used to do tech support -- every tech support person every born or trained will assign an inconsistent problem to user error, because 9 times out of 10 (or 99 times out of 100) it is user error. This one ain't, but how do I get past that filter as well?


• This is starting to make me seriously batty.

Can this problem be described accurately enough to report it? What are others experiencing? Or has it been reported and I'm not looking in the right place?