How change timezone?

[Paul.Li 李隱唐]

Both timezone is GMT+8

[a_5mith]

Just thought, isn't all the time on NodeBB relative. From this comment by @julian a while back,

we save UTC date timestamp on server, and then translate it to an ISOString for "relative date" purposes. So while the system itself is fine even across timezones (fingers crossed)

So, assuming you're still using relative time, this shouldn't be an issue? Unless it starts from posted 8 hours ago.

[Paul.Li 李隱唐]

If I need it is "2014-08-14T22:22:37"
what should I do

[julian]

That brings up a good point... the datetime strings are saved in the server according to the server time, but afaik, we don't handle timezone translations, so if you're in a different timezone than your server, you might see incorrect relative times

Seems like something we really should have, to translate ISO date strings to the proper timezone offset based on user preferences... gh#1994

I need to review how we handle the relative time generation, because it seems to be working fine at the moment (our server is UTC, I am EDT, relative times appear correct for me). Are the relative times incorrect for you?

[julian]

@Paul.Li-李隱唐 Upon further investigation, it seems the relative time library we use does take time zone calculations into account. What is your server's timezone set to? I can imagine problems would arise if your server is not set to UTC...

[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 ...