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I am running EE 1.6.9 and I have the server set the Pacific time (which it is) and my admin user set to Eastern time and I have the checkbox checked to make my user’s timezone the site’s default.

However, when doing this, anything I enter into a field that is a date type (not the master Publish Date) it shows up on the site as three hours further ahead than what I enter in the admin. Editing the entry shows the date/time as 6:00 PM but on the site it shows up as 9.

So just to try, I changed the server’s timezone to Eastern. This had no effect on the times output in either the admin or the public facing site.

What can I do to make the date/time’s agree with each other?

myobie,

The behavior you’re describing sounds correct. When viewing the public site, are you logged in as admin or logged out? Have you tried creating a new entry since changing the server time zone?

What I am describing happens for both logged in and logged out uses.

We have note created new entries since changing the settings.

Our goal is to have it where we type in 3:00PM into the admin and on the site it shows 3:00PM. Is this achievable?

myobie,

Can you add these extra formatting options to your custom date field in your template.
What do they return?

{date format="%F %d %Y %Q %T %Z"}

%Q - local server time zone offset, in hours and seconds, against GMT (e.g. “+06:00”)
%T - Time zone setting of this machine (“MDT”)
%Z - time zone offset in seconds (”-43200” to “43200”). The offset for time zones west of UTC is always negative, and for those east of UTC is always positive.