How can i change the time on my board

[vortex6930]

Hello. I am the webmaster of fragoff.net we are nearly ready to launch however, the time is completely incorrect. I set it to my timezone however the time is still many hours off. How can I manually change the time? Thanks.

[Atif]

I have the same problem.
I have set it to GMT, but its 5hours ahead of what it should be!!

[Thomas P]

Hi there,

had the same problem, I adjusted the time offset in the CP to GMT although I'm not on GMT but GMT +1.

My hoster has screwed up local time and gmt time in the server setup and keeps pretending that everything is okay.
Here's how I proove that via SSI:

date_local: <!--#echo var="date_local" -->
date_gmt: <!--#echo var="date_gmt" -->

Checks both times and you see what's going on regarding server time.

hth,
-Tom

[Atif]

Errr......sorry for being thick...but where do I type that in??

[Thomas P]

Sorry for the late reply...

Just create a normal .html file, put both lines in and rename the file to .shtml

SSI has to be enabled on your server in order to function,
-Tom

[tubedogg]

You need to find out from your host what timezone your server is located in, and set the option in the Admin CP > Options page appropriately. This will allow the board to determine GMT. From there, set *your* timezone under User CP > Edit Options and it should display the correct time for you.

[Thomas P]

Hi tube,

you're right, but:

My hoster keeps pretending that everything is set right on the server. When I look at those variables

date_gmt - Saturday, 16-Jun-2001 11:44:21 GMT
date_local - Saturday, 16-Jun-2001 13:44:21 MEST

It seems that there's someting wrong.

I understand that GMT is never going on DST and we're currently on DST, but nevertheless I couldn't set my correct timezone, which is GMT +1.
The clock would show 12:49 though it's 13:49 here...

I set vB in the CP to GMT and every user to 0 offset and now it shows the correct time


I don't understand that and I don't have a good feeling about that, but it works this way and no other as far as I can see
cu,
-Tom

P.S.: @vortex6930 & Atif - I hope you have more luck!