time settings

Worker Joined: Mar 30, 2009 Posts: 132

I had this working just fine.. and I noticed yesterday its boogered up again.

Server is in CA PST
I want Eastern time set.

on my host. i can edit php.ini which it saves in cgibin however via the host php.ini editor i can not set timezone.. so i downloaded that php.ini file and made and edit and added this

date.timezone = "America/New_York"

at 1st i thought maybe my host didnt like me doing that and removed it, so I checked its still there. however the site is showing UTC.

everything is set for NY/EST.

any ideas?

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 9:36 am

Try using this in your script to diagnose the problem and confirm what you were expecting to sss

Code:

echo date_default_timezone_get();


echo date('H:i:s');


date_default_timezone_set('UTC');


echo date_default_timezone_get();


echo date('H:i:s')

if your using PHP 5.3+ (which you probably are) you might be able to make use of these for date/time manipulation

Code:




$dateTime = new DateTime("now", new DateTimeZone('America/New_York'));


echo $dateTime->format("Y-m-d H:i:s");


 


$dateTimeZone = new DateTimeZone('UTC');


$dateTime->setTimezone($dateTimeZone);


 


echo $dateTime->format("Y-m-d H:i:s");

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:05 pm

PHP Version is 5.2.17

ok. I made a quick script with the code in the 1st box. output below.

America/New_York23:00:54UTC04:00:54

so it looks to me as if php is rendering the time in NY/EST

now in the user info block

Server Info

Mar 04, 2012
04:01 am UTC
RN 02.50.00

So I can say for some reason nuke boogered the time. only add-on I have added is nukespam.

and I cant for the life of me think why nukespam would change everything on the site to show utc

Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 11:13 pm

I'm not real familiar with date formats, but the code used in that block was a carry-over from one block or another.

date('M d, Y');
date('h:i a T');

if that helps anyone Smile

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 12:10 am

spasticdonkey wrote:

I'm not real familiar with date formats, but the code used in that block was a carry-over from one block or another.

date('M d, Y');
date('h:i a T');

if that helps anyone Smile

well I can say before I installed nukespam it was showing Ny/EST in the block,news,ect,ect

after nukespam install i notied its all changed to utc

registered · Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 6:17 am

What I do on my site is I put this code:

Code:




date_default_timezone_set('EST');

in my block-User_Info.php just after the

Code:




if ( !defined('BLOCK_FILE') ) {


    Header("Location: ../index.php");


    die();


}

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 4:27 pm

my problem is this time issue is site wide.

any way maybe in mainfile to set time across the whole site to EST?

like I said my php.ini edits worked with nuke untill nukespam installed. (which I find really odd) but the .ini setting is working just not in nuke.

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 4:34 pm

When I put it in the block-User_Info.php, it did change it site wide for me. I tried putting it in mainfile, header, config, etc. but it did nothing until I placed it in the block.

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 4:41 pm

The only way I can think of that happening is if something else is overriding it with the PHP function
date_default_timezone_set();
I just did a quick global search and found it is used in modules/nukeSPAM/nukeSPAM.php around line 30 so this could bee the possible cause. You might want to comment that line out.

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 4:55 pm

@ nuken - I haven't checked but that might be because the block is called after the nukeSPAM script and so it overrides it. I think ideally, you could set it in the web root index.php file (since nothing comes before that) and then comment out anything else that uses it.
I have notified kguske and a possible workaround but I have not had time to test it thoroughly as I', about to hit the sack.

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 5:40 pm

I already checked that mod from nuke and it works perfect! Just to tell u. If you are in Europe u shouldn't use that one.

registered · Site Admin Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 6437

If you get errors by commenting out that line, you can find your server's timezone here: http://us.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

Just replace UTC with the correct time zone.

I'm looking at modifying the code to make it configurable or at least not default it if it's already set (thanks, Guardian, for the suggestion and for the heads up on this).

Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 1:05 pm

kguske wrote:

Just replace UTC with the correct time zone.

bingo, that worked.

Worker Joined: Jun 21, 2010 Posts: 102

RavenNuke 2.50.00 default time zone is ('PDT'), which is three hours behind my time zone.

nuken wrote:

What I do on my site is I put this code:

Code:




date_default_timezone_set('EST');

in my block-User_Info.php just after the

Code:




if ( !defined('BLOCK_FILE') ) {


    Header("Location: ../index.php");


    die();


}

nuken, I tried your code using time zone ('EST'), and it worked well, but still one hour behind my time zone.

When I use my time zone ('DST'), it returns to Raven default.

kguske wrote:

you can find your server's timezone here: http://us.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php

I did not find my time zone here, so I guest it's not supported.

Is there any way to move the clock up an hour?

Thanks.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 22, 2007 Posts: 1775

works ('EDT') ?

Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:10 pm

No, returned to default.

Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:15 pm

hmm and this?

date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');

i am from germany ... google says:
22:14 Freitag (EDT) - Zeit in Washington, District of Columbia, USA

date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York'); >> 10:14 pm EDT

Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:23 pm

Where do I put this code? In block-User_Info.php.

Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:26 pm

yes...

Code:

if ( !defined('BLOCK_FILE') ) {


    Header("Location: ../index.php");


    die();


} 


date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');

Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:27 pm

Remember, my time zone code is not listed in the list of Supported Timezones.

Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:33 pm

Many results of google to this issue comes with this answer for Washington, DC. I've just tried it and got this result. have you tried it?

Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:39 pm

I replaced this:
date_default_timezone_set('EST');

with

date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');

It works! It works! It works! Very Happy

Thank you.

Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 8:41 pm

haha wonderfull Smile