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Active Discussions => Support => Topic started by: ben schmidt on March 21, 2011, 04:55:30 PM

Title: Timestamps on Mugoo Message board postings are still EST, not EDT
Post by: ben schmidt on March 21, 2011, 04:55:30 PM
This could be by design. I will defer to Mugoo's sysadmin and webmaster (http://www.mugoo.com/smf/index.php?action=profile;u=2): (http://www.mugoo.com/smf/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=40;type=avatar)
Title: Re: Timestamps on Mugoo Message board postings are still EST, not EDT
Post by: AdminMan on March 22, 2011, 12:20:38 AM
This is a long-standing SMF bug and a real PITA for me. I used to cure it by changing an offset in the settings, but when I tried to do that today, I could not find the offset. A quick Google search revealed the real problem at:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=297840.0

Apparently, older versions of SMF set a variable called "default_timezone" which was unable to handle DST, but was included to compensate for a problem in PHP. That variable no longer gets set (but still gets used!!) because PHP has been corrected. All I had to do was find the settings table in mySQL and knock out the variable. The time was immediately corrected.

All pedants may now go back to sleep ...
Title: Re: Timestamps on Mugoo Message board postings are still EST, not EDT
Post by: ben schmidt on March 23, 2011, 09:14:02 PM
Quote from: AdminMan on March 22, 2011, 12:20:38 AM
The time was immediately corrected.

All pedants may now go back to sleep ...

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PS. Thanks adminman!