Alfred's Serif Users' Forums — Setting time zone and daylight saving time.

Re: Setting time zone and daylight saving time.

null@example.com (GB) — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 01:49:00 +0000

Just go to profile settings and set the time to actual in your area

Yes, that seems to work. Thanks.

Re: Setting time zone and daylight saving time.

null@example.com (jackneve) — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 23:24:28 +0000

Just go to profile settings and set the time to actual in your area. Change that when DST starts and ends.

Re: Setting time zone and daylight saving time.

null@example.com (Alfred) — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 16:27:40 +0000

GB wrote:

Daylight Saving Time does not coincide with BST

DST in the US and Canada (where observed, which isn’t everywhere) begins sooner and ends later than BST. I haven’t checked to see what the situation is in continental Europe.

Re: Setting time zone and daylight saving time.

null@example.com (GB) — Sat, 03 Dec 2022 00:51:09 +0000

Daylight Saving Time does not coincide with BST, and, of course, down-under has the equivalent during our winter. Perhaps then it would be better all round if that box remained unchecked.

Edit: However, I note that the forum is still timing my messages one hour later than the actual time of posting.

Re: Setting time zone and daylight saving time.

null@example.com (Alfred) — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 20:42:31 +0000

jackneve wrote:

This, otherwise interesting post, started as a request to confirm that GMT/DST switching is not automatic.
Please can anyone verify that?

As forum administrator, I have access to a Settings option labelled ‘Daylight saving time (advance times by 1 hour).’ It seems that this setting is indeed not automatic, so I have now cleared the associated checkbox.

Re: Setting time zone and daylight saving time.

null@example.com (jackneve) — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 11:08:02 +0000

This, otherwise interesting post, started as a request to confirm that GMT/DST switching is not automatic.
Please can anyone verify that?

Re: Setting time zone and daylight saving time.

null@example.com (GB) — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:42:36 +0000

Yes, Pacific Time, west coast USA. GMT minus 8 hr.

That message timed at 11:24 am is listed on the forum as 12:24:49, so 1 hour later.

Re: Setting time zone and daylight saving time.

null@example.com (William) — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 17:27:45 +0000

Pacific Time perhaps?

William

Re: Setting time zone and daylight saving time.

null@example.com (jackneve) — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 17:02:19 +0000

........ My current actual time is 11:24 am.

I initially thought that's weird, as the time posted is shown as: Yesterday 19:24:49.

But I believe you are posting from the USA.

Re: Setting time zone and daylight saving time.

null@example.com (GB) — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 19:24:49 +0000

I seldom take any notice of the times of messages, only whether they are new. Your post shows as "Today 10:56:51" here. My current actual time is 11:24 am.

Setting time zone and daylight saving time.

null@example.com (jackneve) — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 17:56:51 +0000

I'm sure there has been some discussion on this in the past, but I can't find it, so I'll ask again.

I noticed that most if not all of the times displayed in posts were one hour out, high.
I navigated to my profile/settings and found that the box for daylight saving time (DST) was ticked. I would have expected that meant the forum background system would set/unset DST automatically.

This appears not to be the case, so I unticked the box, which sets all post times to GMT, winter time or whatever you want to call it.
Do I really have to do that every time change DST/GMT?

One might not be very concerned about whether posts were tagged with DST or GMT, but it is interesting when one is looking for posts tagged today or yesterday. Posts entered in the hour before midnight were tagged as today, so one entered at 11:30pm (23:00) was shown as today, 00:30. That's what alerted me to the point. (I hope I've got the order right!)