Martin Dougiamas

Hi Alex, you might want to see: http://moodle.org/course/view.php?id=32

Shrug, lines of code doesn't mean that much, but this is a different graph of the same thing:

http://www.ohloh.net/p/compare?project_0=Moodle+(contrib)&project_1=moodle+(lang)&project_2=dokeos&submit=Go

I don't think it's PHP5 ... moodle.org uses PHP5, for example.

Perhaps the services you are trying have some sort of spam control?

Try turning on all the debugging under Admin > Server > Debugging (especially debugsmtp) and then run cron.php from the command line ... you might see some useful feedback from Moodle about the error.

I spent days nutting out times in Moodle originally and even then PJ rewrote a lot of it - they are a real headache to think about!

Most of the timestamps in Moodle are generated using time() which yes, is GMT. (ie the number of seconds since 1/1/1970 0:00 in England).

You'd use mktime() if you were generating a GMT timestamp from some arbitrary date/time (eg in the future) expressed in your local time zone.

This is already implemented in Moodle 2.0 MDL-16910