Time Zone Problem

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4/30/2009 10:29:03 AM
Aaron W
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Time Zone Problem

I am not sure what the problem is. I am in the Eastern Tiem Zone, but all times on my site are showing an hour behind. I.e, if I were to make a post know it would show 10:30 instead of 11:30. I have made sure that my profile is set to Eastern GMT -5. The system settings show this:

Server Time Zone Mountain Daylight Time
Server Local Time 4/30/2009 9:27:43 AM
Current Time in Greenwich (aka GMT or UTC): 4/30/2009 3:27:43 PM.

Everything seemed to be correct before the last upgrade. Anyone have any ideas?

4/30/2009 11:56:38 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: Time Zone Problem

It does not adapt to daylight savings time currently. Eastern Time in the US is -5 during part of the year but during daylight savings it is -4, so its not the upgrade, its that we just entered daylight savings time.

I've actually got a better implementation designed using new TimeZoneInfo classes in .NET 3.5 we could automatically adjust. But I can't use it yet because its not implemented in Mono, so I'm waiting for them to implement it so we don't break compatibility.

For now you would just need to choose a -4 time zone.

Hope it helps,

Joe

3/16/2010 3:28:47 PM
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Hi Joe, I just wanted to bump this since as you know I've been obsessed with time lately. cool

I noticed the lack of DST adjustment yesterday on my local server, and I was able to adjust the preferred time offset from -8 to -7 in user.config to fix the difference for un-authenticated users.

The more important issue to me is that all authenticated users are definitely going to be off, so we'd either have to adjust everyone's profile or maybe do a database update to change the offset.

So... How's that Mono implementation coming along? yes

Thanks!

Jamie

 

3/29/2010 11:08:54 AM
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Re: Time Zone Problem

Hey Joe, I saw you've been working diligently on the time zone fixes in the latest SVN updates. Mucho thanks in advance!

3/29/2010 1:51:50 PM
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Re: Time Zone Problem

Hi Jamie,

Yes, I got it working by using conditional compilation to keep the old solution for Mono. In the next release there will also be a Site Setting for the default time zone of the site instead of the current web.config preferredgreenwichmeantimeoffset.

Best,

Joe

3/29/2010 4:28:43 PM
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Re: Time Zone Problem

Awesome news, thanks so much.

Jamie

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