Time Zone issue

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Time Zone issue

Brandie Tarvin

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October 29, 2007 at 5:11 am

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Hmm. So I post at 7:00 a.m. my time and am told I posted around noon, according to the "Posted" date on my thread / post. I've noticed this for a while, but finally went to my account to try and set my local time. But I can't find a place to set my time zone so I can see, relative to my real clock, what time I actually posted stuff.
What time zone is the site using anyway? Where ever it is, it seems to be at least 5 hours ahead of me.
Will we ever able able to change our personal time zones so we can see more realistic times on the posts we view?
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Robert O'Byrne SSCrazy Points: 2017 More actions · Answer 1

+5 Hours would be GMT during Eastern Standard Time. Right now it should be +4 until the November stoppage of Daylight Savings Time.

http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_time_zone

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time

"A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure."

VaiydeyanathanVS Hall of Fame Points: 3053 More actions · Answer 2

Brandie,

You can change the Time zone setting of your login in the following way :-

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1) http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/EditForumSettings.aspx

2) Choose Date & Time Options

3) Choose Time Zone: from drop down list provided according to your convient time.

This should solve your issue.

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173045 More actions · Answer 3

Oddly enough, when I was searching yesterday, I could not find the "Forum Settings" Box no matter where I searched on my account or in Control Panel. Yet, today, there it is, right where I thought it should have been yesterday.

I wonder what was going on that I couldn't see it yesterday...

Thanks, guys. I appreciate your help.

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StarNamer SSCrazy Eights Points: 8746 More actions · Answer 4

I'm in the UK (GMT currently, no daylight savings time) it's 11:45am (approx) yet the date time option says...

"All times are GMT, Time is now 12:45pm"!

Derek

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173045 More actions · Answer 5

I'm betting it'll be fixed on Sunday. @=) That's when DST ends here in the States.

Of course, the site could be bugging a bit on its DST patch fix. Maybe it thought last week was DST end? I know at my office we had to put in a second patch to fix the last part of DST...

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John Mitchell-245523 SSC Guru Points: 148809 More actions · Answer 6

British Summer Time ended last Sunday (28th October) and so now we're back to GMT. However, the time of this post shows up as BST.

John

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736150 More actions · Answer 7

The forum code probably doesn't account for the differences in the US. The server is on US time (MDT currently), so it will switch this weekend.