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7/27/2009 6:58 PM

Sebastian Leupold

www.dnnwerk.de
Joined: 3/8/2004

Posts: 46212

Re: Time zone problem

timestamp should be displayed for the moderator in HIS local time zone, i.e. if he set preferred time zone in his user profile to GMT-5, he should get it displayed correctly displayed shifted by 6h from the user's time zone - what do you expect?

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7/28/2009 5:32 AM

david

Joined: 8/15/2008

Posts: 12

Re: Time zone problem

Hello,

I have tried lot of gmt to see how it's working but even I'm changing time in host, admin or user profile ... it's not changing anything I'm always with the time of server which is not interresting to me. Which version of dnn is supposed to work with that ? I'm not in version 5 but version 4 ... could that be the problem ?

I give you sample :

A user introduce feedback at 2pm on my local hour

In feedback module for moderating (host account) it's always the hour of server which is displayed even if I'm putting gmt-5 into admin setting and gmt+1 or gmt-5 in user account or host account.

Is it a delay between the moment I'm changing setting and the moment it's taking care of new value ?

sorry for inconvenience

David

7/30/2009 10:18 PM

Sebastian Leupold

www.dnnwerk.de
Joined: 3/8/2004

Posts: 46212

Re: Time zone problem

David,

I haven't had a look into the module source code for some time, i.e. I am not 100 % sure, it supports timezones properly. If it does, any change may require a logoff/login to be effective (for the viewing part).

Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

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9/23/2009 8:44 PM

Brad McNamara

Joined: 2/13/2006

Posts: 30

Re: Time zone problem

I believe the problem is that the HOST shows the server time, but does not differentiate UTC time for the server time. I figure the Server time is probably figured as UTC 00:00. So even if your server is in EST (UTC -5:00) but nothing differentiates the time zone, it figures that 12:00pm SERVER TIME is actually 1700 time (UTC -00:00). This is a issue I have. My server is in EST and time is correct. I have my profile set to GMT -5 and it throws my time off 5 hours since there is no way to say what time zone the server time is.

Is there a way to resolve HOST TIME ZONE? I looked thru web.config as well as all HOST settings and cannot find resolve. I believe that this is the root for most of the forum post issues regarding the time zone issues.

Kind regards,

Brad McNamara

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9/24/2009 11:22 AM

Sebastian Leupold

www.dnnwerk.de
Joined: 3/8/2004

Posts: 46212

Re: Time zone problem

Unfortunately, this is a known flaw in time zone management - I still hope, we may fix it soon, when implementing windows time zones and replacing the current methods with proper substitutes.

Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

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