Visvanath Ratnaweera

Meaning Upload_users?

The handling of time in Moodle would be an agenda item of its own right. Moodle claims to know the time zone of the visitor and display time in their local time - very kind - but without telling the visitor that, i.e. no time zone displayed. There are two problems: 1) as it happened to your visitor, he was not logged in and Moodle showed a clock time in the Australian wilderness! b) You are not supposed to take a screenshot and send it to another person. It will look like this:

 

Is it at 13:50? No, unless you are in CET!

 

And there is a newer problem: As a spam blocking mechanism, the login session is killed every minute or so, the client is supposed to refresh it. I write this, because I checked the time clicking the link in your post and saw something 10.30 pm. Luckily checked the link in the first post and Moodle asked me to log in again. No wonder, now it shows 13:50 (screenshot above).

 

There are many running and old discussions in the Moodle community sites forum and elsewhere. Very frustrating.

 

Edit: You see, as I wanted to post, I was logged out:

 

And there is no "box to verify you are human"!

 

BTW, why 1pm UTC, is not 13:50 CET? Door opening time?

LOL. I stepped on to an icy slope, talking to a barista myself being a non-coffee drinker!

Back to topic:
> My take on WiseCat's video is, "It has always been difficult to run a production Moodle on low-cost shared hosting platforms. You get what you pay for."

Agree only partially. But don't want to spoil the game. WiseCat miaaued its take towards the end of the introduction in that video.

 

And more party quizzes: Why is the subject written DOOMed, not doomed?

I try to stay close to the wikipedia definitions:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_hosting_service
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_web_hosting_service
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_server
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedicated_hosting_service