Merged [Merged topic] J! 1.5 Time Zone Not working

Joomla generally uses only site timezone -- meaning that users will generally see that timezone regardless of their own setting. So if the site is in GMT+1 but your user is in GMT+3, they will still see GMT+1.

Kunena uses users own timezone to show times. So the timezone is independent from the site and users need to adjust it by themselves. Joomla 1.6+ solves this issue by supporting daylight saving.

yes it was working properly, now it is one hour off, changing the timezone in joomla configuration.php did not help

I'll bet it's a daylight saving issue. J! 1.5.x doesn't know anything about DST. You need to set the server time in Global Configuration.

yes, that was my thought as well.

I am in Israel so the timezone is GMT+2, since we are in DST i changed the timezone to DST+3. and the time still did not look right.

In any case i changed the kunena setting to display the time past rather the the date stamp.
I did not get any complaints from the customer, did it under the radar so it seems to be fine for now

Hi Sozzled,

I realy feel sheepish, since my joomla website uses community builder i had to resync the users in order to set the user timezone to match the system timezone.

now all the users have the same timezone and the date is displayed correctly.

Sorry for all the trouble

Good day.

i had the forum updated to version 1.5.23
however, the clock is set wrong

this is a forum set for Sweden ( GMT+1) but now it is not that.

i also can't see the option to update the time zone.

do we need to customize some codes to make this possible?

Anyone here who can help me please.

thanks