[Answered] Time on Forum is Wrong

[vBBurger]

We have a dedicated server.

Hosting company has it set to Eastern time (4:00pm right now)

Admin CP has the setting of Pacific time (1:00pm right now)

New posts going online are reporting 8:00pm right now.


How do I get new posts to match what I have set in the Admin CP? (Pacific time - 1pm)

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Update -

When i go into my settings as the Administrator - for some unknown reason its set to London time. Why? I never set that.

The Admin CP has never been set at that.

And I dont see any option to set a custom time zone for certain user groups so if all my users are set to London time - I dont see any way to change it for them.

Please advise.

[Amaury]

Just set the default to whatever you want it to be for guests, and make sure to adjust the DST option accordingly. If users have the wrong time, they can adjust the time zone accordingly in their User CP.

On the forum I help administrate, Pacific is the default.

[vBBurger]

Hmm.

That doesn't make any sense.

If I am setting the forum time, then I should be setting the forum time. For everyone. Logged in, registered, or guest. Its an admin control panel function. Set Date and Time.

If users want to customize it that's fine. But I can't have 100% of my registered users set to London time.

Then expect them all to figure out how to change it manually.

This needs to be changed in the next version of vBulletin. I dont understand the logic behind the thinking at all.

I actually saw several other threads about this.

Asking how they can force a new time zone for all members.

Why is it that as admin I am unable to change the time zone for registered users?

At the very least make it an option based on usergroup.

90% of my members are in the USA. Not Europe.

I guess ill have to pay my programmer to manually do this in the database.

[Amaury]

*snipped*

New members are automatically registered with the time zone you have set as the default, and once they've confirmed their e-mail address, they can edit and change their settings accordingly.

[vBBurger]

So the problem here is that we did an import from PHPBB and the importer set all the users to London time?

[Zachery]

It set the users to the default timezone in the AdminCP.

[Eve_Ra]

The new users, Zachery, not the old users. They keep the timezone of their registration. It may be that during the import from phpBB to vB, the timezone have changed to another.

[Matthew Gordon]

If you want to update all users to use PST, run this MySQL query:

UPDATE user SET timezoneoffset = -8

Note that this will change ALL of your users. If you only want to update those who are set to GMT to PST, run this query:

UPDATE user SET timezoneoffset = -8 WHERE timezoneoffset = 0

Your users might need to load their User CP for automatic DST detection to take effect afterward, otherwise it might still be an hour off.

[Amaury]

If you want to update all users to use PST, run this MySQL query:

UPDATE user SET timezoneoffset = -8

Note that this will change ALL of your users. If you only want to update those who are set to GMT to PST, run this query:

UPDATE user SET timezoneoffset = -8 WHERE timezoneoffset = 0

Your users might need to load their User CP for automatic DST detection to take effect afterward, otherwise it might still be an hour off.

Technically, PDT right now. =P

Anyway, yes, do this, and, as said, make sure they set their settings to automatically detect DST.

[TheLastSuperman]

So the problem here is that we did an import from PHPBB and the importer set all the users to London time?

Many are not aware that, before you import from phpBB to vBulletin you must set the default timezone as Matthew stated otherwise your post times could also be off by the difference, you may notice that one you get to checking things.

It set the users to the default timezone in the AdminCP.

[Zachery]

I believe the import sets either nothing or takes its default from the system default.

After the import users can change their times in the usercp/settings area.

[vBBurger]

Thanks for the script! That will solve this issue we are having.

As always - best support team I've ever dealt with regarding Forums.

Thanks guys/girls.