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lentilsoup

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Time Zone Nightmare
November 16, 2009, 09:13:03 am
I have an event entered as taking place at 1:15pm on December 30th.  However, it is displayed on both its CiviCRM page and any Drupal views as taking place at 4:15pm.  It looks like there's some time zone messiness going on, but for some reason it's displayed properly in the administration screen.  What am I doing wrong?

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Re: Time Zone Nightmare
November 18, 2009, 08:41:36 am
Check your Drupal date and time settings. It gets quite confusing as the site timezone, server timezone, and user timezone may all differ— sometimes, I just try all three settings to see if one works correctly.

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Re: Time Zone Nightmare
November 18, 2009, 09:57:54 am
Nope, changing Drupal's time zone doesn't change the displayed time at all... and the time zone was off what it should be by 1 hour, not 3.

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Re: Time Zone Nightmare
November 18, 2009, 10:01:48 am

difference between ET/PT is 3 hours

i would set the timezone in your php.ini

check the php manual on how to do so

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Re: Time Zone Nightmare
November 18, 2009, 10:06:53 am
No access to php.ini AFAIK -- this is on shared hosting.  And yes, the server is on the west coast and I'm on the East coast.  I've tried setting the timezone to America/NewYork in .htaccess, but it's not fixing anything:

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SetEnv TZ America/New_York
EDITED TO ADD:
OK, weird, changing the Drupal time zone by one hour corrected the time displayed in the event editing form, which was the only place it was showing the 3-hours earlier time.  Crossing my fingers that this is solved.
« Last Edit: November 18, 2009, 10:10:04 am by lentilsoup »

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Re: Time Zone Nightmare
November 23, 2009, 03:24:29 pm
Quote from: lentilsoup on November 18, 2009, 10:06:53 am
No access to php.ini AFAIK -- this is on shared hosting.  And yes, the server is on the west coast and I'm on the East coast.  I've tried setting the timezone to America/NewYork in .htaccess, but it's not fixing anything:

Try setting the timezone in your drupal or civicrm settings file. Works for me!

i.e.
ini_set('date.timezone','America/New_York');
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