Strange DST/Time issue

[Ashkarita]

One of my moderators sent me this:

For some reason, even though the time settings are correct and I've changed them back and forth a few times to be sure, it says that the time is and hour earlier than it actually is. But the problem is that when I was replying to a post [person] made, even though I posted after her, the post jumped in front of hers since it decided I made it an hour ago. Errr...help?!

She said they've gone back to normal, and I've checked her account against mine and everything looks fine. Any idea what caused/could be causing this?

[Zachery]

Server time being off, nothing else can cause that.

[Lynne]

The next time you are having this problem, try disabling your modifications/plugins and see if it continues. I had this happen on my site once (to me) and it was a modification causing the issue.
Note: To temporarily disable the plugin system, edit includes/config.php and add this line right under <?php

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true); 

[Ashkarita]

Thanks, I'll try that if it happens again. I think my host may have done some maintenance recently so that could have caused it. I appreciate y'all's help!

[MDreamer]

Hi,

I had the same issue. its the server time as said before..

http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=238743

if you check you 'thread' or 'post' (can't remember..) table you'll see that the time_stamp is wrong but the parent_id(the post that is was replied to) is correct. you can fix it manually by changing the time_stamp values in the DB but i don't recommend it to someone who's not SQL guy.

I had a lot of trouble before i solved it, i needed to "prove" to my hosting service (Media-Temple) that the problem is at their side. you'll need to connect via SSH type the 'date' command, screen-shot it and send it over to you hosting server service.

Good luck
Maayan Dreamer

[Trevor Hannant]

Upload the following file and then point your browser to it - you'll then get the server time.