[UCIMC-Tech] Fwd: [RFU] timezone wrong on web server

[Joe Futrelle]

There's apparently a Drupal patch or module that uses geolocation instead of
TZ offset and so respects DST, but I didn't follow up on the discussion
threads about that.

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Joe Futrelle
Person


On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Jacob Barton <udderbot at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just switched the timezone manually to GMT-6.
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Chris Ritzo <chris.ritzo at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> When new users sign up, they can choose their time zone, but we're talking
>> about the default site timezone. I believe it's set to GMT -5 right now and
>> should be GMT -6.
>>
>> I can look into this tonight unless another imc-tech'er can fix it before
>> that.
>>
>> -Chris
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Joe Futrelle <futrelle at shout.net>wrote:
>>
>>> We had this problem before and someone manually changed a timezone
>>> setting, but I don't remember, who or how.
>>>
>>> Drupal itself has some issues with handling timezones. At least in fairly
>>> recent versions, an offset is specified rather than a location. Not sure
>>> what happens if you disable manually setting the TZ offset. IWBNI we didn't
>>> have to manually change the setting twice a year.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Joe Futrelle
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Jacob Barton <udderbot at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> a Drupal thing?...
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> From: Joe Futrelle <joefutrelle at gmail.com>
>>>> Date: Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 8:35 PM
>>>> Subject: [RFU] timezone wrong on web server
>>>> To: RFU List <rfu at lists.chambana.net>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We've "fallen back" and now the RFU website's announcement of what show
>>>> is currently playing is off by one hour. I have no idea how to fix that.
>>>> Whatever code is generating that is either incorrect or is reading the value
>>>> of an incorrectly configured system clock.
>>>>
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>>>> Joe Futrelle
>>>> Person
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