Martin Dougiamas

For anyone who is a bit confused by the whole timezone thing, just do this:

1.7 and later: Admin > Location > Update Timezones

1.5 and 1.6: Admin > Configuration > Calendar > Update list of timezones ...

Actually, this should be fixed now ... can people please update their timezone files (it should get them from http://download.moodle.org/timezones) and let me know how it goes? MDL-8842

The dates are stored in GMT in the database and translated to the specified timezone on the fly.

After fixing the timezone calculation you'd still need to go through and fix the dates, because 5pm under the new rules is not the same universal time as 5pm under the old rules.

Other than that does the new rule:

1878,America/Los_Angeles,2007,US,-480,0,3,2,0,0,-6:00,11,1,0,0,-7:00


cover all the DST changes? or do we need a whole lot of new rules for all states?

I'd like to update the central timezone file ASAP so everyone can update to it easily. I've filed MDL-8842 to keep track of it, please post more info there.

Yes, you can do that.

This bug was definitely fixed in a subsequent 1.6 release.

The reason is that over 80% of web hosts are still on PHP4.

http://www.nexen.net/chiffres_cles/phpversion/16639-php_stats_evolution_for_february_2007.php

I think Moodle 2.0 will be a good time to switch to PHP5.