Time is incorrect in News Module Comments posts

Regular Joined: Feb 24, 2009 Posts: 81 Location: UK

Hi,
I have the correct time displaying on my site in the Site info block, but when I post news comments, the time displayed in the comment boxes is 6 hours behind. I am in the UK, but my server is in the US. I added date_default_timezone_set("Europe/London"); to the block-User_Info.php file and I've also changed it to Europe/London in the mainfile.php, but still the comment posts show the wrong time. Please can anyone tell me how I can fix this?

Thanks in advance for any help Smile

Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 4:43 pm

If you are logged in as a user, you should be able to adjust it in Your Account - Preferences - Forums Timezone. The time posted should take that into consideration when the comment is posted.

Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 9:43 am

Thanks Nuken. I just tried that but it hasn't worked, test comments are still showing 6 hours behind my UK time. I noticed that in my account it also shows that my last visit was 6 hours behind time too.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 22, 2007 Posts: 1772

jane65, try to remember what you have installed at last.

Do you have nukeSPAM installed?
Do you have activated the user-info block on the left side or on the right side?

If you have the user-info on the left side, then it seems you have added a new timezone setting after loading the left blocks.

Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2014 5:11 pm

Hi Neralex, The user-info block is on the left side, but that is showing the correct time. I noticed today that in my account, it is now showing the right time, so it just seems to be when I post a News comment that the wrong time is being displayed. I don't have nukeSPAM installed as far as I know.

Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2014 7:14 pm

Look in modules/News/comments.php and find around line 904

Code:




$userTimeZone = ($userTimeZone-$serverTimeZone) *3600;

and change to

Code:




//$userTimeZone = ($userTimeZone-$serverTimeZone) *3600;

See if that makes it correct.

Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 1:50 pm

Hi Nuken, Thanks but that didn't correct it.

Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 5:03 pm

OK, help me out a bit here. What was it showing before the change, after the change and what do you want it to show?

Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2014 5:04 pm

Also, what do you have set in your account for the Forums Timezone? And does your forum show the correct time when you post in it?

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 11:43 am

Thanks for your reply Nuken,

I believe it has always shown the servers time in the US before and after the change, but I'd like it to show my time in the UK. In my account the time is set to GMT. I don't actually have a forum activated on the site, so I don't know if that shows the correct time for posts. I suppose I could set the forum up to see what time posts show there, but it'll probably be a few days before I get round to doing that.

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 12:07 pm

The only reason I asked about forums is when I was testing the comments time on a test site, the comment time was off from the forums time. After I made the change mentioned above, it corrected the difference as long as I had the Forums Timezone set correctly. I have mine as GMT -5 Hours which made the time on posts and comments the same as my time zone. Try to adjust your user account Forums Timezone, it should allow you to sync the time.

Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2014 12:16 pm

I think I understand what you are saying now. You want it to only show your default time zone and not the users set time zone. Is that correct?
It is designed to allow the user to adjust the time to his or her time. If that is what you are trying to do, I can look and see how hard it would be to change it.

Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 7:05 am

Thanks for replying Nuken, yes that's right, I'd like it to show the default time zone no matter where the User posts from.

Posted: Fri May 02, 2014 9:57 am

Look in your PM.

Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 5:24 am

Thanks Nuken, but unfortunately that hasn't worked either, there isn't any change, so I suppose it must be being overridden by code somewhere else. Maybe it is a forum setting although I don't have the forum activated.

To recap -

In Site Info - time is showing correct UK time, so that's fine.

Comment Posts are showing what must be my US Server time on posts - 6 hours behind my UK time, whereas I'd like it to display UK time, no matter where anyone posts from in the world.

In my user account from which I post the comments, I have my timezone set to GMT.

Posted: Sat May 03, 2014 5:56 am

On my test site, the changes to the comments.php changed the time. I am not sure what may be going on on your site that would be different. You are talking about comments in the News and not posts in the News, correct?

Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 5:34 am

jane65, you have two possiblities to search the place where the timezone is changed in your php-files.

You can create a backup of your files and search with your code-editor like dreamweaver or notepad++ with a string like "timezone".

Or you can test it live in your running page with this snippet on different places in your files:

php Code:

if (is_admin($admin)) {


	echo '<br />server-time: ' , date('d.m.Y H:i:s T') , '<br />';


}

If you would add it on different files maybe like header.php, footer.php, modules.php, end of mainfile.php, index.php and/or comments.php and/or article.php of the News module etc. then you can see as admin the current servertime and then you can find also the file where the timezone override is based. It could be also a 3rd party block-file or a other script that you have installed.

If you are not sure what you have installed, then you should write it down after every installation, so you can go back step by step. But no one knows, what are you doing with your files. The fact: in the core-version of the download-package isn't exist this issue. It can only be self installed script and this was only you, mate.

Posted: Wed May 14, 2014 12:40 pm

Thank you very much for your replies, sorry I've only just got back to this. I have modified some files so it's very possible I have changed something along the way. I am talking about the comments posts nuken, in fact, I wouldn't know if the main news posts show the right time because I changed the code to stop the time showing on the main posts a long time ago. Maybe that is the cause of the problem, so I'll take a look at that, and if not, then I will try what you've suggested Neralex. Thank you for your help Smile