Vanilla Timestamp Issue.

sushilkar

I found out an issue showing timestamp values for user activities. This happens here in vanilla forum as well as in my deployment.
I am writing a post at Oct 04, 2010 - 3:49PM IST. Now instead of actual date it shows time 30mins before. Now in my case it would be 3.20PM

sushilkar

sushilkar 3:22PM Permalink QuoteEditFlag
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This was the post time details showing for this post.

sushilkar

3:50pm Monday (IST) - this is the current time in IST. I think back end all the time zone are in EST/EDT and time conversion is not happening for people based on their region.

Quite a noticeable bug for Forum application any insight to this.

DavyB

You don't say which version of vanilla you are using and any plugins tht may be significant.
Your posts here are showing up as UTC+5 (ie Pakistan time zone) sometimes posts on a webpage appear with a correctly converted time but sql database is running in a different timezone, depends on your hosting companies policy and does NOT change with DST changes, which I understand India does not use. The half-hour off timezones can cause confusion working out time in the rest of the world.
posted at 13:26 MyLocalTime

sushilkar

I am using, 2.0.9 Previous to the latest. I am not in GMT+5, I am in GMT+5:30. See here are m posting now at 7:48IST(UTC+5:30)

sushilkar

mysql> select now()
-> ;
+---------------------+
| now() |
+---------------------+
| 2010-10-04 19:52:29 |
+---------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)


<?php
$curr_time_zone=date_default_timezone_get();
echo "<br> Current Zone : " .$curr_time_zone . date('r');
?>

Output from above php code
------------------------
Current Zone : Asia/CalcuttaMon, 04 Oct 2010 19:52:16 +0530

See my this post date in this forum itself. Apparently am having same problem.

sushilkar

Any ray of hope?

sushilkar

I just did a time zone change, It worked for me. And since my forum is not international for time being i can keep my worries away.

vinious

hell,new member