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Hello,

Every now and again my client contacts me to say that all the dates in her events weblog have changed.

We are in Australia. Our server is in the US. I have set the client’s account so that her “Use this member’s localization settings as the master site default?” option is checked.

But eventually it becomes unchecked (presumably someone else and the dates all go pear-shaped again. What would the cause be and can I prevent it?

Alternately,if this would help, can I set the default time zone for the entire site to Australian Eastern Standard time rather than to Greenwich Mean time, which is what I think the time zone keeps reverting to?

This is a really severe problem as these times are for events that people are invited to in rural areas. A wrong time can cause a great deal of inconvenience (eg. someone driving four hours to get to an event that occurred the previous evening).

Thanks

This is in EE1.6.8 by the way.

I’ve just added the following field to my user registration form, which is using the solspace user module.

<input type="hidden" name="timezone" value="AEST" />

  (Where AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time I hope)

So hopefully if the cause of our problem is new users being assigned as the “Use this member’s localization settings as the master site default?” setting, then at least the time will remain correct.

I looked in the database (where I have manually changes the time-zones of all existing users). Turns out the time-zone should be set to UP10. The time-zone codes are listed at http://ellislab.com/codeigniter/user-guide/helpers/date_helper.html

It might not hurt to have some sort of a cron job that fixes the problem on a timed basis. So do you have a workable solution?