Are you sure that the record you log is the same as the record you insert?
Maybe the insert failed, so you just log another record that was created 6500 seconds ago.
Try this:
console.log("the current time is--: "+now);
var id = VotesList.insert({ user: Meteor.userId(), flavour: FlavoursList.findOne(selectedFlavour, {fields: {name: 1}}).name, timestamp: now});
console.log("inserted record is: "+ VotesList.findOne(id));
i have tried benoits suggestions (with correct spelling;)) - was after some info about the use of the variable and how to get the data from the object…