Hi!
Times displayed on the web site are formatted (apparently) in US locale and the values are in some timezone, that is one of US timezones, I guess.
As the site is visited from all over the world, at least the information about the used timezones should be available somewhere.
Maybe like this: November 1, 2008 - 6:37pm PST
Or use a one line Javascript that displays times in the viewers timezone (and format).
(this is thing common on almost every web page, I'm trying to convert them one at a time 
)
Regards,
David
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I am in the Netherlands, and it just shows my local time !
The messages from other users any where else in the world, seem to be converted to my local time as well
Formerly Gringoloco
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You can go into your account here and ajust your time zone. Then it will be displayd correctly.
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Oh, sorry, I forgot to mention that I was talking about not logged in people, like when somebody searches something on Google and gets directed to some forum post here.
Logged in users are different. (and even they must set the timezone manually).
Regards,
David
Doesn't drupal automatically look at their IP and get the correct timezone?
No, it doesn't. From what I can see, it shows the times in the default server timezone; phpBB3 does the same thing.
Looking at a user's IP may not be the best way to go, either, since proxying is getting more and more common.
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Well, if somebody's sneaking around on a proxy and a website fails to identify them properly for the purpose of displaying the website in a manner convenient to them, I say blame the user, not the site. The site did its job, but the user wanted to be clever, so they can hardly complain if the site makes the wrong assumption about where they are. If they want to correct that, they can register an account and set the time zone manually.
Valid points.
I brought up proxies simply because they're getting more popular; people have gotten way more paranoid/security conscious, and things such as Tor have gotten a pretty big userbase boost lately, from all I can see.
Anyway, the server shows times in its default timezone for guests and un-logged in users; I think the time shown is Eastern time (NYC), but I'm not certain. Never actually tried calculating it...
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."
Your profile says you're in the United States. Is that accurate?
If you're on the East Coast, it's likely the time is right for you. About a third of the continental US is on Eastern Standard Time during the winter and Eastern Daylight Time during the summer. EST is GMT (the UK) -5.
If you're on the West Coast, you're in Pacific Standard Time which should be 3 hours before EST, or GMT -8. The middle of the US is divided between Mountain Time (Rockies, e.g. Colorado) and Central (e.g. Indiana). Those are GMT -7 and GMT -6 respectively.
As I post this, it's about 7:37pm (1937 in 24-hour notation). I know I'm in the same time zone as John (I'm in North Carolina, he's in New York IIRC) but I don't know where PortableApps.com's servers are (Rackspace? Texas?) but I know a site owner can set the site time manually. I had a domain when I moved from CA to NC and was able to move the site from PST to EST with no problems in cPanel.
Maybe.
Sorry to be so vague, but I like my shield of anonymity; I can count on one hand the number of people, over 3-5 forums, who know my true ID, and none of them really should.
Even if the server's timezone is different from mine, I hardly notice; I don't really read the timestamps anyway...
Cheers!
"The question I would like to know, is the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. All we know about it is that the Answer is Forty-two, which is a little aggravating."