Cycling UK Forum

This is not another question about why the forum clock is "wrong"!
(I know that the time is alterable in my Preferences)

It's just that I was reading a thread, and I noticed that I was supposed to have posted a message at a time that I know I wasn't even in the house! Who is using my username?

It seems that when you alter your Forum Time, you alter ALL your of All your post's time too. This means that your posts are at the time that is relevant to the reader, NOT relevant to the poster.

Small point, but a little surprising.

These setting are doing my head in.

I have just set the GLOBAL Daylight saving option on the admin screen, but this forced me to remove the DST option on the User prefs.

How is the forum time looking to others ??

I think you're an hour ahead of me

And all my clocks are an hour behind the forum clock

Have you removed the DST option in your User Control Panel Prefs ??

I'm all ok with the time setting, I'm in GMT as correct.

When I was reviewing a thread, it seemed that I'd posted when I know I wasn't in the house.

If you alter your time to the time you are at NOW, it alters all the times of all your other posts too. Taken to extreme, it can alter the day as well.

Also, it seems strange, nay surprising, that by changing my time, I alter what has gone before, and everything else by everyone else that has been ever been posted.

Graham wrote:Have you removed the DST option in your User Control Panel Prefs ??

No - I wouldn't know how to

Go to "user control panel"
I depends on your browser and how you computer is set up to where it is exactly, but it will be on your screen somewhere - perhaps near the top.

Click on it, and you should see a column with the option for "Board Preferences"

Click on that, and you should see a panel saying UTC/GMT if not set it to that.

Then below that "Summer Time/DST is in effect:"

Click on "no"

That should get you into GMT.

Why would anybody, except perhaps a certain Scottish Nationalist, be even remotely concerned about the time shown on a post? Is somebody checking up on who is posting at odd times? The date is obviously important, to avoid treating something written five years ago as current but beyond that, is anybody really bothered?

If they are, is there a way of disguising or omitting the timings of my posts?



FWIW, I've just checked and mine is showing CGT - Central Gildersome Time.

thirdcrank wrote:Why would anybody, except perhaps a certain Scottish Nationalist, be even remotely concerned about the time shown on a post?

I'm not making an issue, it was just that I read a post of mine and happened to notice the time I was supposed to have posted it.
"Hang on a sec!" I thought, "I wasn't in then, I was down the pub!"

thirdcrank wrote:Central Gildersome Time.

We're on CGT too - Central Gunnislake Time.

The forum software should just change the time, being driven by the clock on the server - no end-user intervention should be required. Three other fora that I follow made the change ... and a forum I run on a website did likewise. Simples.

Rob

Yes, I know that Rob, but that's not what I'm saying.

If I make a post - this one for instance - and note that the time is 18:59 and the day is Mon 31st Oct 2011 - when we put the clocks forward in the spring of 2012, this post's time will change too. It shouldn't do, it should remain at the time I posted it.

I wonder if anybody suspected of a serious crime has been able to prove an alibi using a cycling forum clock.

robgul wrote:The forum software should just change the time, being driven by the clock on the server - no end-user intervention should be required. Three other fora that I follow made the change ... and a forum I run on a website did likewise. Simples.

phpBB3 doesn't handle daylight saving time changes automatically, all the settings are just dumb "hours from GMT". I looked into fixing it to use standard timezone names like "Europe/London" that take daylight saving time changes into account, but it required quite a bit of work to make the changes needed.

The folks working on the next version of phpBB3 have been discussing this at some length!

Some of these faults are probably also related to the way that date/time is calculated. There isn't current time as such. It is just how many seconds have elapsed since midnight 1970.

So: my local time is now 08:09, I'm in [UTC+1] and DST is not in effect.

So far, so good, and posting time shifts according to the DST flag.

But my time of joining also shifts according to the current state of DST. Looks like a phpBB bug.