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Why Are Comment Times Not Correct? |
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Dingo *can* record the correct time for your comments, but it may not be the correct time for everyone.
What you see on the dashboard/control panel page, along with times used in comments, come from the Global>Server settings in Joomla. If your installation is located in GMT -5, then that's how time will be displayed. (Keep in mind, Joomla isn't so good with DST, so you may need to set your global timezone minus one if to manually adjust. e.g., For EST, Joomla must be set to -4 even though EST is -5)
We discussed the idea of using the user timezone setting so that each comment would be based on their location, but that would be confusing as we would then need to include their timezone so you could make the conversion. (You often want to know when a comment was made relative to others)
We also had tried listing both times (local and server) but that just got messy. Too much information.
Now, when you see time, it's all the same. Our recommendation is that whatever timezone most of the people are in -- that's the one that should be used. If everyone is in a different one, then stick with GMT 0.
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