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Time stamps 27 Mar 2012 21:58 #1

postal OFFLINE Local Operations Manager Posts: 1656 Thank you received: 374	I see that all of my posts are still showing a GMT time of posting although we are now in BST. My profile is showing my Time Zone as GMT + 0:00 and my local time is correct to GMT. Is the Forum keeping to GMT, or should it be reset to BST?
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Re: Time stamps 27 Mar 2012 21:59 #2

Stephen Fulcher OFFLINE Local Operations Manager Posts: 628 Thank you received: 113	You can alter it by changing your personal time zone to UTC+1 in the "Your Details" page at the bottom left.
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Re: Time stamps 27 Mar 2012 22:02 #3

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Stephen Fulcher wrote:

You can alter it by changing your personal time zone to UTC+1 in the "Your Details" page at the bottom left.

Thanks - didn't spot that and couldn't find any way to change things by going into my Profile. That does retrospectively change the time stamp for previous postings made while we were observing GMT which could cause problems if anyone ever tries to use the Forum for an audit trail (if that were ever to happen!).

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Last Edit: 27 Mar 2012 22:05 by postal.

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Re: Time stamps 27 Mar 2012 22:05 #4

Stephen Fulcher OFFLINE Local Operations Manager Posts: 628 Thank you received: 113	It took me ages to work it out.
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Re: Time stamps 27 Mar 2012 22:29 #5

UKTrainMan NOW ONLINE Local Operations Manager Posts: 1486 Thank you received: 113	Previously covered here and also here. Although, thanks for starting this thread as it has reminded me to make the necessary change so that posts show the right time, etc.
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Re: Time stamps 28 Mar 2012 06:36 #6

postal OFFLINE Local Operations Manager Posts: 1656 Thank you received: 374	UKTrainMan wrote: Previously covered here and also here. Although, thanks for starting this thread as it has reminded me to make the necessary change so that posts show the right time, etc. I knew I'd seen it somewhere (but didn't realise I'd seen it twice!).
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Re: Time stamps 29 Mar 2012 04:16 #7

Aurora OFFLINE Signaller Posts: 125 Thank you received: 7	I've been wondering why the recent topics section on the left started showing BST rather than the usual GMT. So you have Daylight Savings in Britain as well I presume. I also presume BST stands for British Standard Time?
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Re: Time stamps 29 Mar 2012 04:51 #8

Peter Bennet OFFLINE Administrator Posts: 2526 Thank you received: 334	BST = British Summer Time. Daylight Saving Time seems to me a strange term as the number of hours of daylight is a natural phenomenon not dependant on what the clock says. Peter
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Re: Time stamps 01 Jun 2012 23:09 #9

postal OFFLINE Local Operations Manager Posts: 1656 Thank you received: 374	I think the clock is still a bit confused. I made a posting to "TOPIC: The board is now OPEN - please read" at 00:24 BST today (02/06/12). It is now 01:06 BST 02/06/12 and that posting is tagged as "Yesterday 00:24".
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Re: Time stamps 01 Jun 2012 23:21 #10

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UKTrainMan wrote:

If you click on the 'Your Details' link on the left there is a drop-down box at the bottom of that page which should allow you to change your time zone - for me it shows as

http://www.simsig.co.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=18&id=1217&Itemid=145#8996

"(UTC +01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Brussels, Copenhagen, Madrid, Paris".

Works for me, times match up to 'real time'.

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Last Edit: 01 Jun 2012 23:58 by UKTrainMan.

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