[olpc-help] Forum support: why is the forum time set to GMT+8 hours ?

[Michael Burns]

On Jan 22, 2008 4:22 PM, thatseattleguy <community-support at lists.laptop.org>
wrote:

>
> I'm curious why the forums were set up with a "local" time of GMT+8 hours,
> which would put us somewhere in Indonesia. Seems a very odd choice and it
> makes it really hard to decipher which postings were done today and which
> are yesterday's.
>
> Could we get it set to something more normal like GMT MINUS 4 hours (East
> Coast US) or GMN MINUS 7 hours (West Coast US)?
>

Because during the many late night hacking sessions when I first setup the
phpbb2 forum, I was selected the wrong timezone... and missed by a wide
margin. I had honestly not noticed that until you pointed it out. Woops!

As mentioned, it is user customizable. I've changed the global setting to be
-7 Pacific time, where the server is hosted.

-- 
Michael Burns * Student
Open Source {Education} Lab
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