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New website 05/10/2016 at 15:11 #85622
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Peter Bennet in post 85621 said:
It says on my profile for timezone "Current offset from server" 00.00 for London. So I assume the server is set for GMT. I guess if you are that bothered just set your profile for a zone that gives the right answer.

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Mines set the same as yours but what i am saying is upcoming games has been showing an hour ahead compared to other parts

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New website 05/10/2016 at 15:13 #85623
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mark265 in post 85622 said:
Peter Bennet in post 85621 said:
It says on my profile for timezone "Current offset from server" 00.00 for London. So I assume the server is set for GMT. I guess if you are that bothered just set your profile for a zone that gives the right answer.

Peter
Mines set the same as yours but what i am saying is upcoming games has been showing an hour ahead compared to other parts
My offset is GMT+2 so WinfordSaltMine's host from yesterday shows as starting at 2200 to me and presumably should show 2100 in the UK. The times for latest forum posts show as GMT+2 (eg Peter's test post is at 1653).

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New website 05/10/2016 at 15:28 #85624
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Peter Bennet in post 85621 said:
I guess if you are that bothered just set your profile for a zone that gives the right answer.

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Rather a cavalier attitude to a legitimate problem.

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New website 05/10/2016 at 17:14 #85628
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mark265 in post 85599 said:
There's a descrepancy between the times show here on site, forum times and PM times are showing correctly, but the upcoming games are for some reason showing (to me at least) 1hr ahead. I can post inforums and it shows that correct time (according to my timezone setting's)

I partook in winsfords BNS, Derby and salt session, the start time was for 20:00BST but it was showing 21:00.

I posted this message at 2255BST (give or take a few mins)
I've just posted a game "This is a test" up for 19:00:00 BST (Or 18:00:00 Zulu), and it is correctly showing for me as 19:00:00 BST.

I posted a forum post at 18:09 BST (Or 17:09 Zulu) and this displayed correctly as 18:09, so I can't reproduce an issue with the game times being an hour offset, perhaps WinsfordSaltMine had simply inputted the wrong time?

Dick in post 85624 said:
Peter Bennet in post 85621 said:
I guess if you are that bothered just set your profile for a zone that gives the right answer.

Peter
Rather a cavalier attitude to a legitimate problem.
As you can see from above I don't think there is a problem, but reading through the previous postings people seem to be confused as to how the timezone setting works. The website will show times in the time zone your forum profile is set to, in my case this is "Europe/London" which will automatically correct for Daylight Saving Time.

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New website 05/10/2016 at 17:46 #85629
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headshot119 in post 85628 said:
mark265 in post 85599 said:
There's a descrepancy between the times show here on site, forum times and PM times are showing correctly, but the upcoming games are for some reason showing (to me at least) 1hr ahead. I can post inforums and it shows that correct time (according to my timezone setting's)

I partook in winsfords BNS, Derby and salt session, the start time was for 20:00BST but it was showing 21:00.

I posted this message at 2255BST (give or take a few mins)
I've just posted a game "This is a test" up for 19:00:00 BST (Or 18:00:00 Zulu), and it is correctly showing for me as 19:00:00 BST.

I posted a forum post at 18:09 BST (Or 17:09 Zulu) and this displayed correctly as 18:09, so I can't reproduce an issue with the game times being an hour offset, perhaps WinsfordSaltMine had simply inputted the wrong time?

Dick in post 85624 said:
Peter Bennet in post 85621 said:
I guess if you are that bothered just set your profile for a zone that gives the right answer.

Peter
Rather a cavalier attitude to a legitimate problem.
As you can see from above I don't think there is a problem, but reading through the previous postings people seem to be confused as to how the timezone setting works. The website will show times in the time zone your forum profile is set to, in my case this is "Europe/London" which will automatically correct for Daylight Saving Time.
The one you have put up is showing correctly, so I am now even more confused, as even at that time all posts in the forums were/are showing the correct times for my time settings.

It was not just WinsfordSaltMine's that made me post this tho, after another user started a game at 2230 but it was showing to me 2330, thats why I belived there was something wrong.

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New website 05/10/2016 at 18:42 #85631
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headshot119 in post 85628 said:


I've just posted a game "This is a test" up for 19:00:00 BST (Or 18:00:00 Zulu), and it is correctly showing for me as 19:00:00 BST.

Showing correctly for me at 2000 (CEST).


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New website 05/10/2016 at 19:05 #85633
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headshot119 in post 85628 said:

in my case this is "Europe/London" which will automatically correct for Daylight Saving Time.
How do you get your's to add the hour?
Mine says: Europe/London (current offset from server time: 00:00:00)

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New website 05/10/2016 at 19:10 #85634
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Peter Bennet in post 85633 said:

How do you get your's to add the hour?
Mine says: Europe/London (current offset from server time: 00:00:00)

Peter
I didn't! It's just done that since the new website launched so I assumed it had automatic DST correction in built. Try changing your profile to a completely new timezone and back again and see if it corrects then.

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New website 05/10/2016 at 19:34 #85635
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Some quite bizarre results!

Europe/Athens (current offset from server time: 02:00:00)
Europe/Amsterdam (current offset from server time: 03:00:00)
Europe/Copenhagen (current offset from server time: 02:00:00)
Europe/Istanbul (current offset from server time: 02:00:00)
Europe/Lisbon (current offset from server time: 03:00:00)
Europe/Moscow (current offset from server time: 01:00:00)
Africa/Johannesburg (current offset from server time: 04:00:00)

and going back to London

Europe/London (current offset from server time: 02:00:00)

Hey-ho, never mind.
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New website 05/10/2016 at 19:48 #85637
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Peter Bennet in post 85635 said:
Some quite bizarre results!

Europe/Athens (current offset from server time: 02:00:00)
Europe/Amsterdam (current offset from server time: 03:00:00)
Europe/Copenhagen (current offset from server time: 02:00:00)
Europe/Istanbul (current offset from server time: 02:00:00)
Europe/Lisbon (current offset from server time: 03:00:00)
Europe/Moscow (current offset from server time: 01:00:00)
Africa/Johannesburg (current offset from server time: 04:00:00)

and going back to London

Europe/London (current offset from server time: 02:00:00)

Hey-ho, never mind.
Peter
I was just having a look at some of the strange results you got,

and now for uk I get the following

Europe/London (current offset from server time: -04:00:00) or
Europe/London (current offset from server time: -05:00:00)

where as before I had Europe/London (current offset from server time: +01:00:00) and I cannot get it back

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Finnally got it back, with a lot of chopping and changes of timezones, although of interest according to timezone settings here NY is only an hour ahead

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New website 05/10/2016 at 21:01 #85640
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Interesting! Times in this Forum show Latest posts done today as occurring on my computer as 06/10/2016?

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New website 05/10/2016 at 21:16 #85641
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BarryM in post 85640 said:
Interesting! Times in this Forum show Latest posts done today as occurring on my computer as 06/10/2016?

Barry
Well yes of course they will! As you are 12 hours ahead of the BST!! (Or around that anyway)

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New website 05/10/2016 at 21:20 #85642
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Just got to thinking, I think that my original post about time discrepancy was correct but not for the reasons I thought it seems that some users who have london set as a timezone have an offset of zero hours setting their default time to GMT and others like myself to GMT +1 making it British summer time, so someone with no offset could put in say 2000 but me with the offset for BST is shown as a different time.
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New website 05/10/2016 at 21:25 #85643
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mark265 in post 85642 said:
Just got to thinking, I think that my original post about time discrepancy was correct but not for the reasons I thought it seems that some users who have london set as a timezone have an offset of zero hours setting their default time to GMT and others like myself to GMT +1 making it British summer time, so someone with no offset could put in say 2000 but me with the offset for BST is shown as a different time.
Well no, that's completely different to what was said up thread which was "The forum posts are correct, but the games aren't"

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New website 05/10/2016 at 22:05 #85644
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headshot119 in post 85643 said:
mark265 in post 85642 said:
Just got to thinking, I think that my original post about time discrepancy was correct but not for the reasons I thought it seems that some users who have london set as a timezone have an offset of zero hours setting their default time to GMT and others like myself to GMT +1 making it British summer time, so someone with no offset could put in say 2000 but me with the offset for BST is shown as a different time.
Well no, that's completely different to what was said up thread which was "The forum posts are correct, but the games aren't"
I still think I may be correct, take you test game post, if (its not but for this example) your offset for daylight savings was off/incorrect, and it was at +0 and you think it is correct and you put in 1900 with the zero off set that would be GMT, but it would display to me as 2000, with my offset of +1 for british summer time, and the forums would display correctly, as when a post is saved it is saved with the system default timestamp adjusted to a users timezone.

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New website 06/10/2016 at 08:14 #85645
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Jan in post 85617 said:
kbarber in post 85574 said:
Interesting bit of behaviour, absolutely consistent over a significant period (I assume it's been happening since the new site went live but it took me a while to notice). Whenever I've read the forum I log out before leaving the site (and I wait until shown as such). But when I return to the Simsig site, I'm shown as logged in!

Have you tried clearing cookies for SimSig.co.uk? I remember that after Geoff had declared this issue as fixed, I had to manually clear my browser's cookies once in order for logging out to actually start working.
Interestingly, the next time I logged in after posting, I had to log in properly. So I'm taking it either Geoff quietly sorted something easy or the cookie somehow got itself deleted - though I don't know how! If the former, I imagined Geoff would know all was now well.

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New website 06/10/2016 at 18:55 #86651
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kbarber in post 85645 said:
Jan in post 85617 said:
kbarber in post 85574 said:
Interesting bit of behaviour, absolutely consistent over a significant period (I assume it's been happening since the new site went live but it took me a while to notice). Whenever I've read the forum I log out before leaving the site (and I wait until shown as such). But when I return to the Simsig site, I'm shown as logged in!

Have you tried clearing cookies for SimSig.co.uk? I remember that after Geoff had declared this issue as fixed, I had to manually clear my browser's cookies once in order for logging out to actually start working.
Interestingly, the next time I logged in after posting, I had to log in properly. So I'm taking it either Geoff quietly sorted something easy or the cookie somehow got itself deleted - though I don't know how! If the former, I imagined Geoff would know all was now well.
I haven't touched that bit for a while but I have occasionally seen issues. Unable to reproduce on demand, of course.

What browser are you using?

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New website 06/10/2016 at 20:19 #86653
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Seems logging out and back in has stabilised the zone for me.

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New website 07/10/2016 at 00:16 #86654
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headshot119 in post 85641 said:
BarryM in post 85640 said:
Interesting! Times in this Forum show Latest posts done today as occurring on my computer as 06/10/2016?

Barry
Well yes of course they will! As you are 12 hours ahead of the BST!! (Or around that anyway)
10 hours! But the posts did normally show "Yesterday" or "Today"

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New website 07/10/2016 at 07:36 #86655
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Yes, I know this is an international site, but wouldn't it just be simpler if the server and all posts were stamped to UTC. At least everybody would see a consistent picture.
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New website 07/10/2016 at 08:16 #86656
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GeoffM in post 86651 said:
kbarber in post 85645 said:
Jan in post 85617 said:
kbarber in post 85574 said:
Interesting bit of behaviour, absolutely consistent over a significant period (I assume it's been happening since the new site went live but it took me a while to notice). Whenever I've read the forum I log out before leaving the site (and I wait until shown as such). But when I return to the Simsig site, I'm shown as logged in!

Have you tried clearing cookies for SimSig.co.uk? I remember that after Geoff had declared this issue as fixed, I had to manually clear my browser's cookies once in order for logging out to actually start working.
Interestingly, the next time I logged in after posting, I had to log in properly. So I'm taking it either Geoff quietly sorted something easy or the cookie somehow got itself deleted - though I don't know how! If the former, I imagined Geoff would know all was now well.
I haven't touched that bit for a while but I have occasionally seen issues. Unable to reproduce on demand, of course.

What browser are you using?
Very peculiar. Using Firefox (not sure how to find version etc number) on a Win7 platform.

Probably counts as another example of me & my big mouth... unusual for it to do anything useful though :-)

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New website 07/10/2016 at 12:45 #86662
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kbarber in post 86656 said:
Using Firefox (not sure how to find version etc number) on a Win7 platform.
Firefox > Help > About Firefox.

Version number shows in the first line of text below the Firefox branding.

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New website 07/10/2016 at 12:47 #86663
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When I edit a post I have previously made and click Submit Post I am taken to the first post in the topic rather than back to the post I have just edited.
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New website 07/10/2016 at 18:20 #86667
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I am guessing this would be low on the thing's to do, but would it be possible to swap the forum and shoutbox, it was nice on the old site having the shoutbox near the top instead of where it is now halfway down the page.
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New website 10/10/2016 at 08:22 #86694
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Previously when reading PMs clicking on Reply brought up the text of the original PM with the ability to make a response above the original text. Now clicking on Reply opens a blank window. Can the carry-over of the original text be revived, please?
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