Vanilla Statistics Time Zone

Csabbencs · October 2012

Let's say we have 3 different time zones:

1. to where my stats is sent (analytics.vanillaforums.com)

2. in which the server of my vanilla forum lives

3. in which I live (server+my user's hour offset).

Can you tell me to which time zone does the graph's data correspond that I see on dashboard statistics screen?

peregrine · October 2012

from: http://php.net/manual/en/function.strtotime.php
int strtotime ( string $time [, int $now = time() ] )

The function expects to be given a string containing an English date format and will try to parse that format into a Unix timestamp (the number of seconds since January 1 1970 00:00:00 UTC), relative to the timestamp given in now, or the current time if now is not supplied.

Each parameter of this function uses the default time zone unless a time zone is specified in that parameter.

in vanilla stats this sets the one month ago stats.

  $Sender->DayStampStart = strtotime('1 month ago'); // Default to 1 month ago

if you modify vanilla stats temporarily - you will see begin time and date at top of screen in dashboard.

if you add these two lines
  $unixtime = strtotime('1 month ago');
    echo date("m/d/Y h:i:s A T",$unixtime);

to 
 public function Gdn_Dispatcher_BeforeDispatch_Handler($Sender) {
      $Enabled = C('Garden.Analytics.Enabled', TRUE);

    $unixtime = strtotime('1 month ago');
    echo date("m/d/Y h:i:s A T",$unixtime);

you will see when your server stats begin for one month ago.

Vanilla Statistics Time Zone

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