Question Last visit date is always today

Yep,
it takes a while before it reaches down-under.

It might be a good idea to put this on a to-do list for the development team for the next Kunena version.
Changing standard templates is not a good recommendation because on the first update of a standard you loose the alterations made.

Over and out.

I was thinking about this matter some more. There is only one other way for the "last visit date" to be something other than today; this can happen if a user is allowed to remain logged-in for a very long time (for days or weeks, perhaps). If y9ou allow your users to remain logged-in for an indefinitely long time then it's possible for the "last visit date" to show something other an "today".

However, because it is also a security risk to allow an account to remain logged-in for an indefinitely long time (and because the standard login-time in Joomla is 15 minutes) this scenario is unlikely to happen. So, while in 99% of the cases, the indicator "Last Visit Date: Today" is meaningless, there can be times when the date will be something else.

On the matter of changing Joomla site templates, I have two comments:

1. If you know how to write a Joomla template override then you can achieve the result differently (which is a better recommendation, perhaps, than the one I gave you; and


2. standard Joomal templates (like the atomic template written by Ron Severdia) are unlikely to be updated and there is less likelihood that changea yo the CSS will be lost. In any event, you should update your site to J! 2.5.18.

I'm so sorry.
Technically, when logging in, Joomla will first change the date of last log-in and only then Kunena picks up the last-login date. Which therefore by definition is meaningless. And I urge this to be put on a to-do list.

Further, it would be a better recommendation in the case of my usage of the Atomic template, to make a copy of this template and make the alteration as you recommended.

In that case the user knows that he is from then on on his own.

You are a quick reader; you missed my comment that I had updated to Joomla 2.5.18

HanKortekaas wrote: Technically, when logging in, Joomla will first change the date of last log-in and only then Kunena picks up the last-login date. Which therefore by definition is meaningless. And I urge this to be put on a to-do list.

If you have a very long Joomla session lifetime (for example, more than 1440 minutes - more than 24 hours) this information might have some meaning, perhaps. For most sites that use a Joomla session lifetime of 15 minutes, this information has no real meaning.

I have reported this as something to be investigated - see GitHub reference # 2301 .

HanKortekaas wrote: Further, it would be a better recommendation in the case of my usage of the Atomic template, to make a copy of this template and make the alteration as you recommended.

Yes, of course, you can do that.

This issue has been addressed as Github item #2301