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Farjo

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Time offset (auto detect)
« on March 25th, 2012, 09:41 PM »
My Time Offset is -1 and the Current Forum Time is (presumably) CEST i.e. one hour ahead of UK's summer time (BST). However when I click 'auto detect' the -1 turns to 0 and the times of the latest posts are CEST time. I've tried this in Opera and Chrome with the same effect. My PC clock is showing BST.

Anyone else get this?

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Re: Time offset (auto detect)
« Reply #1, on March 25th, 2012, 09:47 PM »
Correct Time is shown for me.
This is a French server btw but I believe most Europeans are on the same time savings dates?

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Re: Time offset (auto detect)
« Reply #2, on March 25th, 2012, 09:56 PM »
I've not explained myself.

The correct time is showing. However when I go into Profile / Look & Layout and click 'auto detect' to set the Time Offset I should get a -1 because the UK is an hour behind France, but I get a 0. If I save this, the times are then incorrect for my location. I am hypothesising that there is an error with the auto detect function :)

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Re: Time offset (auto detect)
« Reply #3, on March 25th, 2012, 10:06 PM »
Is your computer clock correct, though? That particular code hasn't been changed, and it works by comparing server time with local time.

Interestingly, mine is correct here though I have not touched anything... :/
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Re: Time offset (auto detect)
« Reply #5, on March 25th, 2012, 10:20 PM »
And since the user profile area does not have timezone configuration (even though it's supported internally), that would presume the server is appropriately configured and uses a timezone setting that is equivalent to Europe/London.

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Re: Time offset (auto detect)
« Reply #6, on March 25th, 2012, 10:22 PM »
I've noticed this also. Depending upon DST here in the US I should be either -5 or -4, but when I hit auto detect it puts zero in instead of -5 or -4. Yes my computers clock is right and also for some strange reason -5 or -4 don't give me the correct time for my time zone.

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Re: Time offset (auto detect)
« Reply #7, on March 25th, 2012, 10:31 PM »
Well, my account states it as -1, which is relative to server time, not to GMT. The server is set to French time, which is GMT(or BST) + 1.

In your case, you will need either -5 or -6 rather than -4 or -5, just the same as any other hosting and any other setup where the server's timezone is different to yours, and different to UTC.

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Re: Time offset (auto detect)
« Reply #8, on March 26th, 2012, 12:37 AM »Last edited on March 26th, 2012, 12:44 AM
My current offset is -8 but the auto detector resets it to zero.
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Re: Time offset (auto detect)
« Reply #9, on March 26th, 2012, 12:48 AM »
Ok, it keeps the edited time for the post to merge, but not the post to merge into. So the alleged bug is just normal behavior.
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Re: Time offset (auto detect)
« Reply #11, on March 26th, 2012, 08:59 AM »
Quote from Arantor on March 25th, 2012, 10:31 PM
Well, my account states it as -1
What happens when you click 'auto detect'?

Nao and other central Europeans cannot test this as they are within the server's time zone, and therefore the offset should be 0.

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Re: Time offset (auto detect)
« Reply #14, on March 26th, 2012, 01:49 PM »
Sorry it took so long to explain. And just to note that my account on aeva.noisen.com gets set to the correct time - I mention this in case it is the same server so it can be ruled out.
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