Re: [MRBS-general] Time zones

[John B. <jo...@re...>]

HenryH wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>      Two (possibly) related questions about MRBS and time zones &
>      daylight saving...
> 
>      1.       My server with MRBS is in, say, GMT/UCT -5 and my users
>      are in GMT/UCT +10.  How do I tell MRBS to advance it's
>      understanding of time by the appropriate amount (I do NOT have
>      access to the clock on the server running MRBS).

You can change effective timezone that MRBS uses by adding a line like
the following at the top of config.inc.php:

putenv('TZ=posix/Etc/GMT+10');

The text after TZ= needs to be a valid timezone on the MRBS server.

Not that the example above bypasses daylight savings entirely, by using
a GMT offset rather than a country/city.

>      2.       Next month (March) the Commonwealth Games (Olympice for
>      the former British Empire) will be held here and daylight saving
>      will be 'altered' from whatever it was scheduled to be (and which
>      most daylight scheduling applications understand), to something
>      which should/may suit the athletes/coaches/officials.  Is there a
>      tweek in MRBS which would allow for moving the 'now' by an hour
>      (or so)?

Hmm, not so sure about this, but you could change the timezone to a zone
equivalent to what the modified daylight savings time is.

So, following the example above:

putenv('TZ=posix/Etc/GMT+11');

assuming a +1 daylight savings.

John.

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