I'm new to the site, but I made sure to set my user preferences, including the "timezone" setting. But it doesn't seem to be used outside of the user-setting page: node dates, and even the tick-tock nodelet, all use their own idea of time (probably East-Coast of USA). Has anyone else noticed this? And is there any way to fix it? --Dave.

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Re: Use of timezone setting
by hossman (Prior) on Jul 21, 2002 at 08:39 UTC
    I've never used the tick-tock nodelet. And I've never seen the times of my posts match when I acctually submited them.

    Frankly, I allways assumed the time zone pulldown on the user settings page was just so other people could see what your localtime is

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Re: Use of timezone setting
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Jul 21, 2002 at 11:18 UTC
    It's not intended to be used outside of your homenode (if you don't care to "reveal" your location, you might wanna reveal your timezone, which narrows it down from earth).

    The Tick tock nodelet reflects the server time, so you have some idea of when nodes were created.

    Yes, others have noticed this.

    There is nothing to fix, since nothing is broken.

    Where did you get the idea the timezone setting would have that kind of effect?

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      Where did I get the idea? Chalk it up to naive user expectation. The pages that I see are customised for my account (e.g. vote buttons, monk pictures, nodelets, etc.). So the script that generates pages knows the timestamps in server-time (or univeral time); and it knows (or has access to) my local time adjustment. Doing the adjustment while generating the page won't reveal my information to anyone else; so its not a privacy issue.

      I agree with the person who says its not a big deal; but if I was writing the scripts, my hubris would make me add these little details that add up to quality. --Dave.

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        Well I disagree with podmaster. I consider the current situation a misfeature but I can't fix it until the server daemons are switched to UTC/GMT and I can't arrange for that until I have some free late-night time.

        I'll probably have some free late night time in a little more than a week from now so I'll start "fixing" this in a week or two. Who know how long before a fix can be deployed, however.

                - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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Re: Use of timezone setting
by mr2 (Friar) on Jul 21, 2002 at 11:47 UTC
    it's not a big problem imho.
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