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There’s a 1 hour discrepancy between the {current_time} field and my custom date field. I tried changing all the Localization Settings fields one by one, but they all affected both fields (it’s been set to UTC + 1 all along, fwiw. Does this matter?). Didn’t matter whether I set the custom field to ‘fixed’ or ‘localized’, either. Also tried deleting the cache, to no avail.

Both fields are set up exactly the same way:

{featured_expiration format="%y%m%d%H%i%s"}
{current_time format="%y%m%d%H%i%s"}

This was the output a minute ago after I set the custom date to output the current time:

110505233010
110505223015

Note the difference: 22 should be 23 on the bottom one.

Don’t know if it’s any help, but this:

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

... gives me this:

May 05 2011 +01:00 MET 7200

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Any idea what might be causing this?

Is there perhaps a way I can mathematically add an extra hour inside the custom field tag? If yes, what would the syntax be?

Note: I’m on Build: 20101220.

[Mod Edit: Moved to the EE 2 Technical Support forum]

Oh, man, I’m nearly falling off the edge of the cliff here. Or the first page.

I assume this is a complete unknown seeing as I’m not getting any replies, but can anyone confirm that? Have similar issues been raised in here before ? I searched and found references to several date discrepancies, but none quite like mine.

Hi, Haarball. We work in a queuing system, your question just got to the top of the queue. Sorry for the delay.

One thing to check.. did you switch your user over to DST being on? I saw the same thing with the entry date being in the past by one hour until I switched over.

Does that help?

Ah, didn’t know it worked like that. Yes! That worked. Thanks, Sue—can’t believe I forgot to check there.

DST was set to No on my user, but Yes in the admin panel. Is this completely manual, though? Do I have to set this back for all the users and the system itself in half a year?

Yes, you do need to switch them manually. It’s easier for you to do that twice a year than to depend on users doing it. 😊

Does that help?

Yeah, I just thought the system might solve that itself when time comes. 😉

Thanks, Sue.

It would be nice if it did, but different parts of the world switch over at different times. 😊

Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.