Cycling UK Forum

Can't find the correct forum for this bit of pedantry but I've just noticed that the time given at the head of the message board site is one hour behind current BST though the date seems correct! Of course it will show the correct time when the clocks go back in a couple of weeks but please let us have the illusion that summer is still here for a little longer (Which to be fair is just like the weather has been recently!).

http://forum.ctc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?t=5502 might shed some light on it.

The forum could, probably, know when it's summer time (the webserver certainly does). Another little thing on my To-Do list

The phpBB developers did the simplest thing, getting users to set their own time compared with GMT in hours. It should be possible, if a little more complicated, to get users to choose their actual timezone, taking into account the different daylight-saving adjustments used around the world.

It is, however, very easy to change your current timezone in your Profile

You'll all be pleased to hear that I've now installed the "Automatic Daylight Savings Time" modification to this forum.

Now you'll see that your timezone settings use cities (e.g. Europe/London) instead of fixed hour offsets. The mod makes use of this setting along with the Linux timezone database to display times. The timezone database knows about daylight savings time changes for each timezone, so the times will automatically be correct in winter and summer.

A quick test suggests that the modification is working well, but do let me know if you spot any problems with the times being displayed on the Forum.