Timestamps on Mugoo Message board postings are still EST, not EDT

[ben schmidt]

This could be by design. I will defer to Mugoo's sysadmin and webmaster:

[AdminMan]

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 ...

[ben schmidt]

The time was immediately corrected.

All pedants may now go back to sleep ...

Hey! Cliff Stoll's waning astronomy career got supplanted by a successful literary one, when he fixated on two computing-charge reports whose totals should have been the same but instead differed by 75-cents. <gr>


PS. Thanks adminman!