Shout Box

Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 4:23 pm

I really wouldn't call this a bug, but it is annoying me. I just posted a message to the Shout Box, and the time is off by 3 hours. Shout Box shows 3:02, but I posted it at 6:02.

I have set my time zone in the Forums to GMT-4 hours, which should be correct for my area. Is there another place I should set my timezone?

Involved Joined: Jul 15, 2004 Posts: 252 Location: OKC, OK

My setup keys off of system time, which for my host is EDT I would guess that you are east cost and your server is west cost. I have not found a way to set "Nuke time" just in the forums.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

Look here http://www.ravenphpscripts.com/faq-2-Nuke+.html-+Troubleshooting#28 and/or do a search for 'formatTimestamp'. I have posted a method that works with news items and maybe you can modify it to offset your time.

Posted: Fri Jul 16, 2004 4:41 pm

As always, you rock. Thanks.

This is the only minor irritation I've encountered, other than the fixes you've already posted.

Thanks again.

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 5:57 am

I'm on the westcoast and my server is in Texas, but it's set to EST. I can correct for this in the block-shoutbox.php file, around line 136 ....

Code:

if ($Submit == "Shout") {


        $test = 0;


        $yr = date(Y);


        $mnth = date(m);


        $dy = date(d);


        $day = "$mnth-$dy-$yr";


        $h = date(g)-2;      //  This is the server time.  Since it's daylight savings time I use -2, in the fall I'll change it to -3


        $m = date(i);


        $ap = date(a);


        $time = "$h:$m:$ap";

Hope that helps.

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 9:58 am

CodyG,

That snippet of code is not in the version of block-Shout_Box.php in Ravens 7.3 distro. I think this is the code I need to change, I'm just not sure what/where to change:

Quote:

// date("O"); = difference to GMT. Example: +0800

$sql = "select * from ".$prefix."_shoutbox_date";
$resultD = $db->sql_query($sql);
$rowD = $db->sql_fetchrow($resultD);
$day = date("$rowD[1]");
$time = date("$rowD[2]");

I am pretty sure it is in the line: $time = date("$rowD[2]");
But everything I've tried has failed.

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 10:52 am

You're right! I obviously do not have the latest version of shoutbox on my other site and I was using that code to show how I had changed the time.

how about this (if you are on east coast and server on westcoast)?
$time=date("$rowD[2]")+3;
?? Did that not work? Maybe something in the php manual about date() would be useful.

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:01 am

Okies... I'm just guessing at this point, but I got this idea from the manual.

$timeoffset=3;
$servertime = date("$rowD[2]");
$time = $servertime+$timeoffset;

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 11:26 am

I've tried using the Offset
date("O")+0300;
both before and after the function, but it makes no changes at all.

I also tried your $timeoffset, and it messes up the time like most of the other things I've tried. It shows:

GeekyGuy: This is a test shout
07-17-2004 13

And it should be :

GeekyGuy: This is a test shout
07-17-2004 10:26am

Which is still showing the server time (PDT instead of EDT)

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 12:28 pm

You will need to convert the timestamp from the table back to a unixtimestamp and then apply the offset in seconds and then convert it back before displaying it Wink

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 12:35 pm

Yup, I'm sure that'll fix it. Wink

(pssst. Hey, anybody know what the hell he just said?)
RavensScripts

edit: I am actually searching for a way to do that now

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 12:45 pm

good plan... if I knew what raven what talking about I'd help. Wink

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 2:08 pm

d*** rookies Bang Head

Your date looks like this

Code:

07-17-2004 10:26am

So, to alter that you need to convert it back into a unixTimeStamp. Here is a quick-n-dirty routine I just threw together to demonstrate. I know there is a shorter way but I'm on my way out the door and I think this will get you by.

Code:

<?


$dateS = '07-17-2004 10:26am';


$date = explode(' ',$dateS);


$time = explode('am',$date[1]);


$ampm = $time[1];


$date = explode('-',$date[0]);


$time = explode(':',$time[0]);


$offset = 60*60*3; //offset in seconds


$date = strtotime($date[2].'-'.$date[0].'-'.$date[1].' '.$time[0].':'.$time[1])+$offset;


echo date('Y-m-d h:ia',$date);


?>

Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 3:29 pm

I've given up on it for today. I've given myself a headache, and I have two cats that are demanding some attention.

Thanks again Raven, you're the best.

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 11:18 am

I decided that I really didn't need to show the time a Shout was posted, so I just turned it off in the Shout Box administration.

Problem resolved Laughing

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:09 pm

Chicken.

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:14 pm

Yuppers!

I need to learn a whole lot more before I attempt that again. I've not had enough time to hit those books. Crying or Very sad

Raven's probably forgotten more about PHPNuke than I will ever know
RavensScripts

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:22 pm

I am going to look at this later today because I have nothing else to do and you're such a great guy ROTFL

- Confidence is high - Resolution is near!

Posted: Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:28 pm

Most excellent. You are da Man!

I've got to hand it to ya Raven, this distro is awesome. And Coppermine is actually working (didn't work when I installed it on my old setup). I've got some pics of my two cats up on my site now.