I have also considered an option on users profiles to set their own offset from GMT so that posts appear in their local time.
Thoughts on either change?
littleman
12:12 am on Oct 20, 2000 (gmt 0)
I like the latter very much.
Brett_Tabke
4:32 am on Oct 20, 2000 (gmt 0)
The later does require the former too. If a user isn't logged in, then the default would be gmt.
bill
6:34 am on Oct 20, 2000 (gmt 0)
Please let us control the offset from GMT in our profiles.
Air
6:43 am on Oct 20, 2000 (gmt 0)
ability to choose offset sounds great.
rencke
7:41 am on Oct 20, 2000 (gmt 0)
GMT means "green mean thing", right? We wouldn't want any of those. OIP sounds better.
GWJ
11:48 am on Oct 20, 2000 (gmt 0)
The ability to set would be nice.
Brett_Tabke
5:30 pm on Oct 20, 2000 (gmt 0)
The only quesion left is what to do about all the messages already stored as local time to the system. I suppose I could write a convertor to walk back through. (17k messages - whew).
DaveAtIFG
7:49 pm on Oct 20, 2000 (gmt 0)
Time of day doesn't much matter to me on yesterday's messages or earlier beyond chronology/sequence. Leave them as is.
Brett_Tabke
8:50 pm on Oct 20, 2000 (gmt 0)
I about have it set. Lots of little checking to do yet. You never realize how many places have time displays on the system until you dig into it.
Brett_Tabke
9:38 pm on Oct 20, 2000 (gmt 0)
Ok, all set. Set your timezone offset and id off your profile.
DaveAtIFG
10:38 pm on Oct 20, 2000 (gmt 0)
Looks good so far...
Air
2:26 am on Oct 21, 2000 (gmt 0)
Yeah works great, now I just have to get used to not mentally adding that hour to all the post times ....
Brett_Tabke
3:13 am on Oct 21, 2000 (gmt 0)
When I was testing it out, I keep having to stop to think, so I thought the 3char time zone id was a good idea.
