On Jan 22, 2008 4:22 PM, thatseattleguy <<a href="mailto:community-support@lists.laptop.org">community-support@lists.laptop.org</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>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.
<br><br>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)?<br></blockquote><div><br>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!<br>
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As mentioned, it is user customizable. I've changed the global setting to be -7 Pacific time, where the server is hosted.<br clear="all"></div></div><br>-- <br>Michael Burns * Student<br>Open Source {Education} Lab