Q:

UTC time is wrong when local computer settings are wrong

Since the update to Stack Overflow, I noticed that when I hover my username at the top, it shows a new box, and in that box at the bottom, it says UTC time [time].
The thing is that the time represented there is the time on my computer. And my computer's clock is wrong, so the "UTC" time is also wrong!
So... Should't it be using the server's time and translate it to UTC?

A:

In the next build there's an offset detection on page load, meaning we compare server time to your local time when the page loads and use that offset to (very closely) display server-time in the popup, rather than strictly your local time as UTC.
If you change your time while the page is open...well that's a bit unreasonable, you're still on your own there :)

