Re: [Phpgroupware-users] Time display problems in Anglemail and Felamimail

[Des Dougan]

As a follow-on from this thread, and the discussion on IRC, I noticed just 
after midnight last night that the calendar still showed "today" as 
Saturday. I changed the preferences until I proved that the Calendar 
application was also 8 hours out (which I hadn't realized previously).

Today, I added a timestamp and timezone to navbar.inc.php in the "verdilak" 
template I'm using (adding "G:i, T" to the "show_date($now,'l')" field 
(and, as an aside, for some reason I can't fathom, "Sunday" now has an 
asterisk appended to it)).

After I added the time and zone information, I experimented with the 
timezone parameter in Preferences and the tz_offset in the phpgw_config 
table. I found that the tz_offset parameter seems not to have any effect - 
whether it was set to 0 or to -8, I saw the same time display.

When I changed the Preference to 0, the time displays correctly in both the 
navbar header and in emails (apart from the particular email I sent on Dec. 
1). I also tried this at 0 and -8 with tz_offset set at both values - no 
change seen.

I then set up a new user, just to be certain that nothing user-related was 
causing any of this. When logged into initially, the user's timezone offset 
was 0, per the default Preference, and displayed the correct time.

As I noted above, I also added the timezone to the navbar. This 
consistently displays, correctly, as PST, even when the Preferences offset 
is adjusted - so at both 0 and -8, it shows as PST.

I'm not sure what all this means, although the conclusion I'm coming to is 
that the Preferences timezone relates not to GMT but to the server's local 
time, thus explaining the "double-dipping".




Des