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cubist
9 years ago
3
Topic

Hello.

I'm hoping there is an easy way to record the date and time that is = now and then subtract 8 hrs from it. If so, I can set up an additional field for this.

I keep seeing this issue in several posts here which is ... Joomla seems to record UTC, ie GMT  -- No matter what you might set in your php.ini file. Is this true?

The offset in the global config is ONLY for display purposes.

My web host said we could use a VPS and alter the time on the server so Joomla records PST in the database (in effect) -- seem like a viable global solution, no?

I have the problem because if I do a search of the Article Created date I get posts recorded in GMT.

My client who does a search for all the posts from today has to include 2 days because of the way Joomla records time.

It would seem to me that many of us doing searches in Seblod have this problem.

I would think the solution is in the Code Pack (http://www.seblod.com/products/1854). 

Any contributors? Thanks in advance!

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4229 Posts
Kadministrator
9 years ago
1
Level 1

Time in Seblod depends on timezone setting in php ini as it uses php function time. For calendar calculations see attached tutorial.

215 Posts
cubist
9 years ago
0
Level 2

So how can I get the current time in the calendar field? 

I thought I read, you can add "now" to the default value. I tried "now()" also, but get nothing ... thx!

Neve rmind I see this post describes how, http://www.seblod.com/community/forums/fields-plug-ins/fields-date-birthday-old

4229 Posts
Kadministrator
9 years ago
0
Level 1

Hi,

yes, putting now into default field will give you current time

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