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Hello,

I’ve taken over the maintenance of an event site that has a rather bazaar problem and I’m having trouble figuring out where to look to find the source.

The event date at time is set using the “Entry Date” field which will occasionally roll the time back by one minute when the entry is saved.  So entering a time of 7:30 might result in an actual saved time of 7:29.

I somewhat suspect that the problem lies in the localization settings which include the following:
Server Time Zone: (UTC -5:00)
Server Offset: 60
Default Time Format: United States
Daylight Savings Time: Yes
Honor Daylight Saving Time associated with…: Yes

Do you see anything in here that might cause the symptom I described?  I have no idea why they set up a server offset of a full hour but I intend to undo it…  maybe that will help?

ExpressionEngine version 1.6.8 build 20090723.

Thanks!

I think it might have to do with the seconds, actually. Can you try to add

$conf['include_seconds'] = 'y';

to your config.php and check for yourself? Also, EE 1.6.9 is a recommended upgrade; your version is more than one year old.

Thanks as always, Ingmar.  That config setting should help a ton.

Upgrading the EE version is on my to-do list but I first have to find out from the client if their download account is current.

Yes, I understand. Let us know if that setting helps with your issue, though.

I have also come across this issue - not with the entry date field but with custom date fields. And not in EE 1.6.8 but in EE 2.1.0 Build 20100810. Unfortunately at the moment I don’t seem to be able to recreate the issue.

I’ve turned on the hidden configuration setting as suggested above.

I’ll report back if it happens again.

Will, if this happen again please post in the EE 2 forums so we can keep this to the appropriate place. Thanks.

Oops! Got to this thread via search. It hadn’t even occurred to me to check which forum I was in.

Will put it in the right place next time, as the bishop said to the actress. Cheers.

Thanks! We’ll be here.