Hi everybody,
I'm having a problem. Using recently installed fresh v 2.6.4 every time I insert a users birthday in the profile, the system changes it to a day before and in the front page it always says "No birthdays today". in order toappear a birthday today, i have to input a users birthday 2 days ahead of today.
How can this be?
Thanks,
Gerardo Rodrigues
Moodle (unchanged) 2.6.4
www.academiastellamaris.pt
Hello Gerardo,
Have you checked your server timezone settings?
https://docs.moodle.org/27/en/Installing_Moodle#Settings_within_Moodle
Hi Guillermo,
Thanks for your reply. Everything does look ok. Can't figure out what's wrong.
I'm bumped...
It sounds like some daylight time-saving adjustment. Have you checked the unix timestamp value? Maybe it was created with the "wrong" timezone.
How/where can I adjust it?
Thanks Guillermo.
Hello Gerardo,
I don't know how you converted your times but at the page I referenced there's a dropdown list where you can choose between GMT and Local time. As the Unix timestamp is always assumed to be UTC/GMT, you need to convert your Human dates using the GMT option. For example:
If I convert my current local time (11:40 AM GMT-5) using the GMT option, I get the following:
Epoch timestamp: 1411749600
Timestamp in milliseconds: 1411749600000
Human time (GMT): Fri, 26 Sep 2014 16:40:00 GMT
Human time (your time zone): 9/26/2014 11:40:00 AM
But if I convert it using Local time, then I get:
Epoch timestamp: 1411767600
Timestamp in milliseconds: 1411767600000
Human time (your time zone): 9/26/2014 4:40:00 PM
Human time (GMT): Fri, 26 Sep 2014 21:40:00 GMT
As you can see, the timestamp value is quite different (five hours, given my timezone: GMT-5).
So, you only need to make sure that the time settings of your computer are correct and select the GMT option during the Human date/Unix timestamp conversion.
--- Reference
What is epoch time?
The Unix epoch (or Unix time or POSIX time or Unix timestamp) is the number of seconds that have elapsed since January 1, 1970 (midnight UTC/GMT)
Hello Gerardo,
Yes; there might be more than that. I just looked for the plugin:
https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=block_birthday
and I see that it says:
Birthday Block for Moodle 2.0 (and beyond)
but then the "latest release" message stops at the 2.3 version:
This is the latest release for Moodle 2.3
Maybe the plugin needs to be updated for the latest Moodle releases? You could try and contact the author (Anthony Burrow) directly or by posting at the General plugins forum, just as he recommends:
The best place for questions is in the Contributed plugins forum - http://moodle.org/mod/forum/view.php?id=44
Other than that, I guess that you would need to start debugging by looking directly at plugin code and at the values saved at the database.
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@moderators. Could this thread be moved to the General plugins forum?
That's probably it, but I didn't install any extra plugin with Moodle.
The Birthday block comes already with Moodle 2.6.4, so if nobody else complains about it, how can it be a problem with the plugin?
It's weird, hehe.
Thanks Guillermo.
Mh? What birthday clock? I've never heard of that as being part of the Moodle core
The standard Edit profile page doesn't have any "birthday" field, as you may confirm at the Moodle sandbox:
So, check your plugin page:
to confirm about this being a plugin issue. I still think this has to do with the Birthday block plugin:
https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversion.php?id=1142
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And you needn't open a new thread, as this one has already been moved to the Plugins forum
Try and message the author.
I am having the exact same problem, and no plugins were installed for birthdate. It's not a timezone issue. Did this issue ever resolve? If so, how did you fix it?
It's a bug that was fixed... https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-46676
So Guillermo, the tracker says that Moodle 28 was affected, but that was back in August. How can I find out if this has been fixed in 2.8.3? I imagine it has been, as I can't believe they would not have fixed it, but still, I need to know how I can be sure, as I need to upgrade this soon.
Sorry to inform but this is an old thread and Mr. G hasn't been active in quite a while.
Maybe this will help:
https://moodle.org/plugins/pluginversions.php?plugin=block_birthday
Moodle 2.0, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Maintainers info is shown in above link.
'spirit of sharing', Ken
