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Post by Keith_w   » Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:00 am

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This may have been asked before but what time zone are the servers in? I am making this post at 8AM Saturday Feb 14 ( Happy Valentines day everyone) but it will show as 9am.
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Post by Randomiser   » Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:16 am

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Keith_w wrote:This may have been asked before but what time zone are the servers in? I am making this post at 8AM Saturday Feb 14 ( Happy Valentines day everyone) but it will show as 9am.


I think the posts show the time according to the time zone of the reader. Mine shows yours at 1pm for example and I'm in GMT or Zulu time for those with a military background.
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Post by Joat42   » Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:28 am

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You can set the TZ in your user control panel. It's found on the forum main-page just above the list of the forums.

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Post by thinkstoomuch   » Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:33 am

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It is actually adjustable.

If you click on the "User Control Panel" on the Log in screen at the top.

Then on "Board Prefences" on the right.

The third from the bottom entry is for "your" time zone.

Hope it helps.

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Post by Keith_w   » Sat Feb 14, 2015 12:22 pm

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thinkstoomuch wrote:It is actually adjustable.

If you click on the "User Control Panel" on the Log in screen at the top.

Then on "Board Prefences" on the right.

The third from the bottom entry is for "your" time zone.

Hope it helps.

Have fun,
T2M


Thanks Joat and T2M
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Post by Keith_w   » Sat Feb 14, 2015 12:26 pm

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Hmmm, my time zone was set to EST, which is my TZ, but my last post was an hour from now... lets see when this shows up (it's ll:25 now)
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Post by Weird Harold   » Sat Feb 14, 2015 3:42 pm

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Keith_w wrote:Hmmm, my time zone was set to EST, which is my TZ, but my last post was an hour from now... lets see when this shows up (it's ll:25 now)


Check your Daylight Savings Time setting. I keep it turned off and change to MST instead of PST when "Spring Forward" rolls around. It sometimes takes a month or more for servers and forum software packages to catch up -- and some never do.
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Post by Potato   » Sat Feb 14, 2015 5:02 pm

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I believe for a while changing the DST settings did not work on this site. I remember one day it randomly started working.
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Post by dan92677   » Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:06 pm

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Potato wrote:I believe for a while changing the DST settings did not work on this site. I remember one day it randomly started working.


It does now, I just reset the DST setting. (don't forget to hit the "reset" button)
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Post by Keith_w   » Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:02 am

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Weird Harold wrote:
Keith_w wrote:Hmmm, my time zone was set to EST, which is my TZ, but my last post was an hour from now... lets see when this shows up (it's ll:25 now)


Check your Daylight Savings Time setting. I keep it turned off and change to MST instead of PST when "Spring Forward" rolls around. It sometimes takes a month or more for servers and forum software packages to catch up -- and some never do.


I just changed to Atlantic standard time, which should put the correct time on my posts.

Thanks to everyone for pointing various things out.


Edited: Went to Central time for a better time.
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