in reply to User settings/timezone

Just to expand on this, setting the timezone to UTC+0 from user settings results in the page being refreshed, with the timezone at the top showing correctly as UTC+0. But it doesn't seem to actually take: going back to my homenode, it's still out by an hour, and reentering user settings shows me back at UTC+1. My assumption is that the form processing code is redisplaying the submission values, but not actually writing them to the user database (in this case).

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Re: Re: User settings/timezone
by $code or die (Deacon) on Oct 30, 2001 at 16:58 UTC
    <speculation>
    I am guessing that the form shows "UTC+0" after you submit because of CGI.pm's sticky variables.

    As to why it's not going into the database, perhaps there is a chunk of code that looks like: 
    if ($USER->{timezone} != CGI::param('settimezone') && CGI::param('sett
+imezone'))
{
  # change user setting
}

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    the value for UTC+0 is the only one that would evalaute as false.

    Of course, this is just a guess wihout seeing the code. I'm not sure but I don't think that the timezone setting is in Everything core. I think it's a perlmonks add-on.
    </speculation>

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