(SOLVED) Time setings

i am very new to all this so please forgive me - I have searched and cannot find the solution. The time stamp on all private messages is that of my server rather than where I am located. The joomla site shows the correct time as I have the offset correct in global settings, also I have set the offset in my fireboard options but I cannot get the time right in PM's - any ideas where I need to look or what I need to do.
Thanks

Post edited by: slabbi, at: 2008/06/15 14:26

I am glad I am not the only one to have a similar problem. I am using uddeim with Fireboard and CB. Time settings are correct in all areas of the site save for the private messages. They are stamped 8 hours behind everything else. I cannot find where to set timezone or time offsets in the admin area?

Could anyone suggest where these setting are?

Thank you,

Strange, since I use the Joomla timezone to correct the server time (admin.shared.php):

[code:1]function uddetime() {
global $mosConfig_offset;
$rightnow=time()+($mosConfig_offset*3600);
return $rightnow;
}[/code:1]

You can try to change it to "$rightnow=time();" but I wonder why this does not work on your system.

Could you check what the exact server time is and what the setting of the Joomla timezone is?

btw:

That is exactly the way Joomla uses to get the correct time:

Example from content.php:

[code:1]03782: function mosCurrentDate( $format="" ) {
03783: global $mosConfig_offset;
03784: if ($format==""«») {
03785: $format = _DATE_FORMAT_LC;
03786: }
03787: $date = strftime( $format, time() + ($mosConfig_offset*60*60) );
03788: return $date;
03789: }
[/code:1]

So maybe the problem is the server time or local timezone setting.

slabbi, thank you for your help. I changed the suggested code and that changes the timestamps to the server time.

After some trial and error I found that this setting gives me the correct timestamps.

[code:1]$rightnow=time()-($mosConfig_offset*2160);[/code:1]

This must be due to the fact that I want my time settings in UTC -5:00 and my server sits in UTC -8:00

Thank you very much for your help.

Usually you correct the server time in the global settings of Joomla.