Time Zones

Time Zones

by Chris Clark -
Number of replies: 3
Hi all,

Tried searching through the forums and found nothing, don't know if someone has had this problem before:

I live in South Africa, and have my moodle site (www.thebarn.za.net) setup in New York, America (because of the competitive pricing).

When I set up my Moodle, I adjusted the time zone to be +02h00, which is applicable to me.

The problem is, that when I view the logs, it reports back to me in New York time, which is 7 hours behind me.

Any suggestions? TIA

Chris
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Re: Time Zones

by Martin Dougiamas -
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There are two time zone settings ... one default timezone for the whole Moodle site (when no one is logged in) in Admin -> Config -> Variables and one in your user profile (which overrides the default).
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Re: Time Zones

by Chris Clark -

Hi Martin,

Thanks very much, just changed the time setting for each admin account.

I changed it from Server's Local Time (Your current time) to +02h00, and it worked.

Quite Strange... I thought if I changed it to +02h00 when I set Moodle up, it would be the set default for all new students?

Thanks again,

Chris

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Re: Time Zones

by David Le Blanc -
I don't know if this is a local issue or a possible bug in the program; although I have my settings adujsted for Pacific Standard Time (GMT -8), the logs and other entries dispay one hour earlier (GMT -9). It's not really a problem but I thought I should mention it since I am certain I have everything correct in my settings. thoughtful