How change timezone?

Paul.Li 李隱唐

@julian

ok , I set to UTC,

I have a new problem about post time, the problem is when I post a article at 16:00,

the article time will show it is post about 8 hours ago, but actually it is post about 1 minutes ago,

please help me to fix this problem, thanks !

a_5mith

@Paul.Li-李隱唐 gh#1994

Paul.Li 李隱唐

I found a mistake,My server timezone is UTC+8, then I change it to UTC, but the forum time still is UTC time.

,maybe need nodebb support timezone function.

julian

@Haowei @fiag Have you ever run into this issue?

fiag

@julian The time string is always UTC time. It seems that we need a new feature to translate it to local time based on user's timezone setting and a global timezone setting for guest.

reyes.tsai

Hi @julian

I have same problem as paul.li, the display time is wrong at my location,

could I have some patch or update to fix this problem,

we will use nodebb in our company , Please save me ASAP, many thanks!!

Regards,
Reyes

Paul.Li 李隱唐

@julian Could you please take a look on this issue ASAP..

Could I know What time exactly can be fix this ?

If problem can't be resolved, Is there any other solution ?

I’d appreciate any help you give me with this !!

julian

It seems the time zone is working fine even here. Our server time is UTC, and my local clock is EDT (-4 hours), and the relative time is working as intended.

Is your local clock set to the correct time zone?

Paul.Li 李隱唐

I am very sure the local clock is set to the correct time zone, but it always has the same problem...

Dear @julian I think maybe @fiag will know my problem is

Please take a lok on this, many thanks..

Kenneth Chan

@julian I think what @Paul.Li-李隱唐 was saying is that the wall clock and the timeago of each post is correct. It's the time displayed when the cursor hovers on the timeago being UTC (timestamp suffixed with Z) instead of localtime. Or at least it can be set in user preferences?

Paul.Li 李隱唐

Yes, Just like @Kenneth-Chan saying, thanks @Kenneth-Chan

julian

@Kenneth-Chan @Paul.Li-李隱唐 Thank you for clarifying the issue! I don't think there is anything I can do, as it is the ISO timestamp that the relative time library requires. If we alter that timestamp, then the relative time might end up being translated incorrectly ...