Daylight Savings Time problem

[dknelson99]

Here is the problem. Any solutions?

In the date and time options section of the user CP, if I select "automatically detect DST settings" my times on this board didn't advance last Sunday. Is that because the board is set up to think that IN doesn't follow DST? (I know we haven't been for years, but this year now we have it again.) If I select "DST corrections always on" then it advances. But with that setting will it go back to standard time next fall, or does that fix it an hour ahead no matter what?

[Jake Bunce]

Try refreshing the page or visiting the User CP page. I find that usually prompts the automatic DST correction.

[firewire]

I really have to say that the whole DST handling is very unconvenient. It is a constant source of irritation for my users.

After I have set auto DST-recognition fixed for all newly regged users (see here) and existing users by SQL query, there are still members compaining about the wrong time being displayed.
They have got their correct time zone entered in their profile, so all I can tell them is a fuzzy "try entering the user CP, maybe that'll help, you know, vBulletin uses some obscure methods to detect your time settings even I don't know".

I'd really vote for being able to disable the whole "automatic dst/time conversion" setting and using a fixed, server-wide time instead.

[SNW]

Agreed. I think more board owners would be happy to be able to turn the time zone options off and stick with server time. I have a board that has users starting at 9 years old. They shouldn't be bothered with these options, in order to be able to see the right time of an event in the calendar.

[pufftenticle]

more / differents suggestions...

i have tried the usercp suggestion, several times. and i have tried the refresh, several times. any other suggestions ?

[Jake Bunce]

Are you running the default style? There is footer code that triggers the correction.

[pufftenticle]

yessir, on this particular board it is plain jane. no plugins or mods or anything. it is a very small board with maybe 100 users when it maxes out, but the calendar was very important. so the time issue is messin with the calendar (so to speak). it shows to be in the wrong time zone so all of the events on the calendar are about a half a day ahead of when they are actually happening. other than that everything is working perfecto.

i did add some more nav links and a header to the top (header_template) but left everything else alone.

here is the site:

http://www.jvfd.org/forum/

[Jake Bunce]

I just registered on your forum and the time was 1 hour off. I visited the User CP and it automatically corrected.

It seems to be working fine.

[pufftenticle]

i checked the site. when not logged in, the time is in fact off by one hour.

but then i logged in, and it was off by 5 hours. i visited the control panel, clicked back, and the time is still off by 5 hours.

[Steve Machol]

vBulletin gets its time from the server. You need to set the timezone and DST settings in the Admin CP to match the timezone of the server your forums are running on. Then each user needs to set their local timezones/DST in the User CP. If you do this correctly and the server time is correct, then the correct times will show.

[Sonics]

Turn off timezones?

That is crystal clear, Steve. But is there an easy way to stop using custom times and have all users time to be the server time?
My board users are very young and cannot be bothered with timezones. They have no idea...

[Jake Bunce]

The timezone option is always present in user profiles, but the users are not required to change it from the default.

[pufftenticle]

fixed for me....

okay, i understand. thanks jake and steve. i did that, and it worked (of course). sorry i can't help with the other issue.... thanks again

[trana]

Edit: Resolved.

[zagman76]

Edit: Resolved.

any chance you can post what you did to resolve it?