Forum clock has changed time?

[soldar]

Bugger, I liked it the way it was before but if it benefits others elsewhere then so be it. Being ten hours in front puts us in a different day so keeping track of new posts whilst signed out is going to be tricky from now on.

I had never really thought about this problem but, thinking about it, I guess there is no "solution" that will work for everyone other than to be logged in.

The "problem" for me seems to be that I cannot set a time zone in my settings but what I can set is a time difference with the server so if the admin decides to set the server to a different time zone I need to go and correct my offset. This seems like a bad board software design.  My user time zone should not depend on the server time zone but on a UTC offset.

Minor problems though.

[RoGeorge]

Is there any way to see my forum pages time according to my timezone?

Here is 19:42:00 (aka 7 PM), but for whatever reason the forum displays 07:42:00

[soldar]

Is there any way to see my forum pages time according to my timezone?

Here is 19:42:00 (aka 7 PM), but for whatever reason the forum displays 07:42:00

Forum profile -> Modify Profile -> Time Offset.

[tautech]

+1 vote for the base time to be UTC.

Both myself and gnif (who does all the server admin) are both in Sydney time zone 

Your forum - your rules.

Although it would benefit roughly 50000 other users.

Happy now?

Nope, not at all.
If you're not logged in the maths are hard now when it was only 2hrs difference before.
Had to change the forum clock this morning. Date and pm was waaaaay wrong.

[Monkeh]

+1 vote for the base time to be UTC.

Both myself and gnif (who does all the server admin) are both in Sydney time zone 

Your forum - your rules.

Although it would benefit roughly 50000 other users.

Happy now?

Nope, not at all.
If you're not logged in the maths are hard now when it was only 2hrs difference before.
Had to change the forum clock this morning. Date and pm was waaaaay wrong.

Welcome to the rest of the world.

[soldar]

Nope, not at all.
If you're not logged in the maths are hard now when it was only 2hrs difference before.
Had to change the forum clock this morning. Date and pm was waaaaay wrong.

I believe there are two separate issues at work here.

One issue is what time to set the server clock to and that is the time guests will see. IMHO there are two options that make sense. One is local time for where the server is located, and I think that is the most common with most servers, and the other option would be UTC. This is just a matter of choice by the site admin.

Another separate issue is that it seems the time stamp shown to logged-in users because the offset for each user is related to server clock and not to UTC as it should, so when server time is changed all users have to adjust their offsets. With this in mind it seems to me the best option is to have the server clock set permanently to UTC.