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Last updated on 4 years ago
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kevanNewbie
Posted 4 years ago
Why is Time (You) showing 5 hrs ahead of what it should be? My server is in US East, GMT -4, as am I but my settings page shows:

Time (Server) June 29 2021 12:23:29
Time (You) June 29 2021 17:23:29
Time (Guests) June 29 2021 12:23:29
Time (Default for New Users) June 29 2021 12:23:29

My settings are:

Set this so server time is GMT 0 - set to GMT -4
Guests offset - set to GMT -4
Default Timezone - set to GMT -4

Now, I assume the first setting should be the timezone the server is in, but to me the instructions are a bit confusing....
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Anonymous UserVeteran Member
Posted 4 years ago
Just set the same time zone for all and that's it.

Nothing hard to understand
Time (Server) - this is not even used in the core, so ignore this
Time (You) - your timezine (you can set this in edit profile)
Time (Guests) - time for guest
Time (Default for New Users) - default time

In my opinion, all these options are completely useless. And maybe in version 9.10 I'll drop them and keep only one time zone option.
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kevanNewbie
Posted 4 years ago
I do not see an option to set my timezone in my profile...that was the first place I thought of looking.
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Anonymous UserVeteran Member
Posted 4 years ago
Install Timezone UF again.
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Anonymous UserVeteran Member
Posted 4 years ago
New Time & Date settings in v9.10

It is now also possible to set own date format
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kevanNewbie
Posted 4 years ago
OK, I tried to install the TimeZone user field, under the Miscellaneous Information category, but it doesn't appear. To test functionality, I added the First Name and Last Name fields to the Contact Information Category. They show up OK.

I also see a message when trying to add the TimeZone field.

"Another record with the same field name existed in the database record. Please choose another field name."

When I look at my DB user_fields table, I see only the 'First Name' and 'Last Name' records.

Just FYI, this is a recently upgraded install from V7.xx to V9
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Anonymous UserVeteran Member
Posted 4 years ago
Ok, I'll check upgrade script.

To fix this, open SQL tab in phpmyadmin and run this sql. It will add missing row into user_fields table

INSERT INTO YOURPREFIX_user_fields (field_id, field_title, field_name, field_cat, field_type, field_default, field_options, field_error, field_required, field_log, field_registration, field_order, field_config) VALUES
(6, 'Timezone', 'user_timezone', 4, 'file', '', '', '', 0, 0, 0, 1, '');
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kevanNewbie
Posted 4 years ago
Thanks, That did the trick.
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