Time display

RaceTime · 5 Apr 2002, 23:21 (Ref:253053)

Can anyone tell me why the time displayed on posts is always an hour different to local time?

For Australian conditions this was evident both during and after our daylight savings (thought it would have fixed up after we came off daylight savings, but no - still showing an hour ahead)

For eg - this post was written at 9:22 am local time.

And editing - the time displayed when posted was 10:21...

**Craig** · 6 Apr 2002, 10:51 (Ref:253340)

Sounds like you need to go to your forum options/profile and amend your timezone. This controls the time offset to the server time and therefore determines the time shown on your posts.

Bomn · 6 Apr 2002, 11:37 (Ref:253379)

If you live in eastern Australia you need to set the time zone for Tokyo and for eastern Australian daylight savings you need to set for solomon islands.

Morris 1100 · 6 Apr 2002, 11:45 (Ref:253383)

Stop the world I want to get off!

RaceTime · 6 Apr 2002, 11:46 (Ref:253386)

You aren't serious about these time zones are you? What is causing this - I mean this is not something that would be readily apparent...

Bomn · 6 Apr 2002, 11:49 (Ref:253389)

Thats what works for me

RaceTime · 6 Apr 2002, 11:49 (Ref:253390)

Quote:

Originally posted by Craig Antill
Sounds like you need to go to your forum options/profile and amend your timezone. This controls the time offset to the server time and therefore determines the time shown on your posts.

Which is set for Eastern Australia.

Bomn is suggesting setting it for Tokyo and having to change it when we go on to daylight savings again later this year - surely that can't be the way to do it?

**Craig** · 6 Apr 2002, 16:20 (Ref:253577)

Fraid so.

As I said before, all that the selection does is set an offset from the server time. If your daylight saving time is different to that what the server is running on you will need to adjust the setting in your profile.

RaceTime · 6 Apr 2002, 21:59 (Ref:253785)

My point is that we are no longer running daylight savings here - we are now 10 hours ahead og GMT - so why do the times from ten-tenths differ by one hour to real time? Surely this indicates a problem somewhere else (after all all other software I am running that is able to obtain time is managing to correctly display time for me)

**Craig** · 6 Apr 2002, 22:09 (Ref:253794)

Okay I'll rephrase that as I'm no expert on the various time zones of the world...

If your timezone is different to that which the server is running on you may use the drop down menu in your profile/options settings page to allow for this by selecting a time offset. To make it easier for you to select the correct time we have added a selection of cities in these timezones so all you need to do is select the zone with your nearest city. However, daylight saving times may affect this setting, so you may need to take this into account when selecting which offset to use.

RaceTime · 6 Apr 2002, 22:41 (Ref:253820)

Craig,

Sorry I'll try once more.

I have done that - I have selected the city I reside in - we do NOT currently have daylight savings in force. We are 10 hours ahead of GMT yet the posted time being given when a message is posted is STILL out by an hour. Why?

It was suggested I should change my city from Melbourne/Sydney Australia to something like Tokyo - and I am asking why should I have to do this?

It appears, from the way the one hour is constant (regardless of whether I am on daylight savings or not) that the time stamp is being generated by ten-tenths and IT is adding one hour for some reason (are you currently on daylight savings??)

**Craig** · 6 Apr 2002, 22:49 (Ref:253822)

Maybe we have an expert on time zones on this forum who could attempt to answer this for Mr Racetime ? All I know is that we are using a standard software package and the server is correctly configured. There is no problem here, nor I believe anywhere else ? Odd.

RaceTime · 6 Apr 2002, 22:50 (Ref:253824)

Out of interest then - what time does your last reply show as being posted in relation to actual time?

RaceTime · 6 Apr 2002, 22:50 (Ref:253825)

For example - that one I just posted shows 09:50 - real time here is 08:50 (22:50 GMT)

RaceTime · 6 Apr 2002, 23:09 (Ref:253832)

If it's any consolation, http://www.rallyforum.com/ is also showing incorrect time - they are also one hour ahead (even quoting GMT one hour ahead).....hmmm is this something wrong with the code - they are using vBulletin as well....

Bomn · 7 Apr 2002, 01:49 (Ref:253910)

It must be vBulletin. East coast Australia is GMT+10 but if you select that option it is one hour out no matter what time of year it is. I currently have mine set on GMT+9 but when daylight savings was on I used GMT+11. I don't mind Tokyo this time of year.

Don K · 7 Apr 2002, 07:55 (Ref:253965)

Quote:

Originally posted by RaceTime
For example - that one I just posted shows 09:50 - real time here is 08:50 (22:50 GMT)

To me it shows as 00:50 (CET, Central Euopean time). That would mean 23:50 in the UK, or 22:50 UT, Universal Time (mean solar tiime at Greenwich).

Did your problem start last weekend (when Europe started this year's DayLight Saving Time)?

RaceTime · 7 Apr 2002, 08:21 (Ref:253974)

No - the problem has been evident ever since I started using ten-tenths and, as I posted the link earlier today, it appears to happen to other vBulletin software users as well - methinks a bug in their software....

R · 7 Apr 2002, 09:04 (Ref:253985)

In another forum in which I post (not a motorsport forum), the time on the screen differed by one hour when I posted yesterday, and by two hours when I posted this morning! Strange. It's not vBulletin, btw, but Ezboard.

The time here at 10 Tenths is correct for me.

DavyboyLT1 · 7 Apr 2002, 09:18 (Ref:253989)

The times were off by one hour for me, as well.

But in N.A., we just switched to Daylight Savings Time 3 hours ago (one week after Europe made the switch).

Now the times are correct.

R · 7 Apr 2002, 10:02 (Ref:254001)

Quote:

Originally posted by DavyboyLT1
But in N.A., we just switched to Daylight Savings Time 3 hours ago (one week after Europe made the switch).

Aha! That's probably why it has changed for me on that other board... thought it might be something like that.

StuiE · 7 Apr 2002, 11:51 (Ref:254040)

the times were correct 4 me before daylight saving finished, WHICH WE DONT EVEN HAVE IN WA!!!!

and now they r an hour behind

StuiE · 7 Apr 2002, 11:57 (Ref:254043)

now its an hour ahead

***Chris Y*** · 8 Apr 2002, 14:39 (Ref:254879)

RT- I think it's still an hour out because we're now using daylight savings time, and the server is running here. So even though you're not using DST, you still need to adjust your timezone to one hour more, to account for the server using DST. I'm as confused as you are

RaceTime · 8 Apr 2002, 22:19 (Ref:255158)

I thought that might be the case, however it didn't explain why it was an hour ahead during our summer/your winter - in that case it should have been an hour behind!

Not know vBulletin - does it take the time from the time zone or, as I would have expected, from GMT/UT (whatever they call it now

If anything, it is more an annoyance when trying to see when threads when posted and follow what has gone on.

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