Hi there Clint
Have you noticed if the dates are incorrect elsewhere and for all users or just one or a few? It might pay to check other forums and the logs.
The date/time is configured for the site via Administration ► Location ► Location settings. If set to 'Server's Local Time' check the time on your server.
Users can also specify their own timezone via the profile settings.
I hope this helps
Cheers
Teresa
Have you noticed if the dates are incorrect elsewhere and for all users or just one or a few? It might pay to check other forums and the logs.
The date/time is configured for the site via Administration ► Location ► Location settings. If set to 'Server's Local Time' check the time on your server.
Users can also specify their own timezone via the profile settings.
I hope this helps
Cheers
Teresa
I've just experienced the same thing. I restored a course with user data. The posts from the original course are now dated 2 months into the future.
We were moving a course to a new server, so I backed it up and then restore it on the new machine.
I think this happened at course restore because the course start date defaulted to the current date instead of the backed-up course's original start date and somehow Moodle extrapolated new dates for the forum posts (which I don't think should be proper behavior - forum dates should be the date the posts were created regardless of course start date).
The question now is how/where do I fix this in the database? I still have access to the old site, so I know the "real" dates. I can't just try to restore again because others have posted to the new site since this happened.
We were moving a course to a new server, so I backed it up and then restore it on the new machine.
I think this happened at course restore because the course start date defaulted to the current date instead of the backed-up course's original start date and somehow Moodle extrapolated new dates for the forum posts (which I don't think should be proper behavior - forum dates should be the date the posts were created regardless of course start date).
The question now is how/where do I fix this in the database? I still have access to the old site, so I know the "real" dates. I can't just try to restore again because others have posted to the new site since this happened.
The same problem is noticed when you import the whole database to a new server..
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=145531
is there a temp. fix for it? like changing GMT and date in the DB?
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=145531
is there a temp. fix for it? like changing GMT and date in the DB?
Thanks to Melinda for the tip
If you set the start date of the new course you want to copy to (or restore) to the same start date as the one you want to copy from (or backup) the forum post dates are correct once restored to the new course area.
Sorry it doesn't help if you've already had posts on the new forum, but is a 'fix' if you discover it before