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Make timezone relative to UTC, not server?
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PaddleMan
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Nov 19, 2012 - 2:38 pm

Mr Papa said
then you will see users who dont select their own timzeone will get that as the default...

Sorry - but did not work.... I changed it from UTC+13 to Auckland. Saved the WP settings.... Registered a new user. Went to the new user's prfile and the time zone is set to UTC!!  This is going to annoy the visitors! I might hide away the option to change the time zone - that way every user will have the wrong local time - but at least they will all be consistently wrong and right relative to each other.

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Mr Papa
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Nov 19, 2012 - 2:43 pm

I dont understand that...  just tested it and worked for me...

and the create new member data is straight forward

    $useropts['timezone'] = get_option('gmt_offset');
    if (empty($useropts['timezone'])) $useropts['timezone'] = 0;
    $tz = get_option('timezone_string');
    if (empty($tz) || substr($tz, 0, 3) == 'UTC') $tz = 'UTC';
    $useropts['timezone_string'] = $tz;

as long as you have a valid timezone string, ie Auckland, it will init new users with that...

so puzzled... 

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Yellow Swordfish
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Nov 19, 2012 - 2:56 pm

We are talking about the timezone set on the forum - look at that new users SP profile - not their Wp profile. What does THAT say?

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PaddleMan
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Nov 19, 2012 - 3:17 pm

Sorry - I guess I looked at the Last Visit date - not the Registered date!!! And you are both correct and I am sorry for reporting as not working.

It is a bit weird to see the registration date later than the last visit date!!

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But when the user logs in with the password that was emailed during the registration, the last visited date also gets corrected.

I am a happy now. Thanks for helping me with this.

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Mr Papa
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Nov 19, 2012 - 4:08 pm

no worries... we got there! ;)

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