how do i adjust server time for News articles in ravennuke?

Hangin' Around Joined: Dec 07, 2006 Posts: 41

from faq

Quote:

· How do I adjust the server time for News articles?
In mainfile.php, find the function formatTimestamp(). Assuming it resembles this code

function formatTimestamp($time) {
global $datetime, $locale;
setlocale (LC_TIME, $locale);
ereg ("([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{1,2})-([0-9]{1,2}) ([0-9]{1,2}) Sad

[0-9]{1,2}) Sad

[0-9]{1,2})", $time, $datetime);
$datetime = strftime(""._DATESTRING."", mktime($datetime[4],$datetime[5],$datetime[6],$datetime[2],$datetime[3],$datetime[1]));
$datetime = ucfirst($datetime);
return($datetime);
}

Modify it to this. Note the -15? That is the number of hours to offset the timestamp.

function formatTimestamp($time) {
global $datetime, $locale;
setlocale (LC_TIME, $locale);
ereg ("([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{1,2})-([0-9]{1,2}) ([0-9]{1,2}) Sad

[0-9]{1,2}) Sad

[0-9]{1,2})", $time, $datetime);
$datetime = strftime(""._DATESTRING."", mktime(($datetime[4]-15),$datetime[5],$datetime[6],$datetime[2],$datetime[3],$datetime[1]));
$datetime = ucfirst($datetime);
return($datetime);
}

i am looking to add six hours to the time shown on news articles. i have managed to change the timezone courtesy of a search through these forums, but can't seem to find where to add hours/minutes onto the server time.

i think this is the part of the mainfile.php i need to change

Code:

// Beta 3 code by Quake 08/19/2005


// Written for Nuke-Evolution and Nuke Patched


function formatTimestamp($time) {


    global $datetime, $locale;


    setlocale(LC_TIME, $locale);


    if (!is_numeric($time)) {


        preg_match('/([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{1,2})-([0-9]{1,2}) ([0-9]{1,2}):([0-9]{1,2}):([0-9]{1,2})/', $time, $datetime);


        $time = gmmktime($datetime[4],$datetime[5],$datetime[6],$datetime[2],$datetime[3],$datetime[1]);


    }


    $time -= date("Z");


    $datetime = strftime(_DATESTRING, $time);


    $datetime = ucfirst($datetime);


    return $datetime;


}

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mmm,have you read this... [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ]

Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 3:47 pm

firstly, thanks for replying.

it's the second batch of code that's in my mainfile.php. the link you quoted does not contain code in my file.

Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:08 pm

mmm, your on nuke-evolution ?

Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:37 pm

nope. ravennuke.

the original fix might relate to the original phpnuke, but not after the various patches that raven et al have applied.

it's no big thing anyway. it's just that after being able to change the timezone to something more at home (i live in gmt-land, the server is in cst-land) it would have been nice to have the time i posted a story reflected with the timestamp.

i was just thinking that if a "fix" was found, then it would be great for anybody who really needs to have an acurate timestamp.

Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 6:42 pm

but its a bit unclear...
you tried your posted code or not realy sure how to do that / edit it....

Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 7:04 pm

the quote containing the code is lifted directly from the faq about changing the timestamp.

the code under "i think this is the part of the mainfile.php i need to change" is what i think i have to change in my mainfile.php, but i have no idea what to change in it. i've tried a few things, but i think the "gmmktime" must mean someting different in php to "strftime" and knocks the fix for whack.

Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2006 7:31 pm

well strftime is a stringformat that works with local and gmmktime gets a unix timestamp.
maybe if you search on php.net it might help a bit..
i tried a few edits on my testsite but end up with the same time.

Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6432

Remember that your user time is defined on your profile. Unless you change the time stored in the database for when the article was written, the time for a story is relative to your user profile time.

If it's just the news articles you want to change, I'd suggest looking into the news admin function for approving and creating stories and add 6 hours (in seconds) before updating or inserting.

Are you using the standard news in RavenNuke?

Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2006 6:13 am

found it! i knew it was a matter of adding either the difference in minutes or hours somewhere in the mainfile.php, but was unable to find anywhere that said how/where to do it to the nuke-evolution/nuke patched mainfile.php

after failed searching on a number of my fave nuke forums, i found the answer here ( [ Only registered users can see links on this board! Get registered or login! ] )

find:

Code:

$time = gmmktime($datetime[4],$datetime[5],$datetime[6],$datetime[2],$datetime[3],$datetime[1]);

remplace with

Code:

$time = gmmktime($datetime[4]+6,$datetime[5],$datetime[6],$datetime[2],$datetime[3],$datetime[1]);

where +6 is the difference in hours between your local time and that of the server.