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The Layonara Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Serissa on June 20, 2007, 06:44:00 AM

Title: Layo clock is wrong??
Post by: Serissa on June 20, 2007, 06:44:00 AM

The times showing in the upper right hand corner of the screen are all off by one hour from the correct time.  Is it my computer somehow, or is something wrong?

Title: Re: Layo clock is wrong??
Post by: Lilswanwillow on June 20, 2007, 06:53:57 AM

its correct for me soooo?

Title: Re: Layo clock is wrong??
Post by: Blackguy on June 20, 2007, 07:20:31 AM

Are you sure that you got your timezone right?

Title: Re: Layo clock is wrong??
Post by: Blackguy on June 20, 2007, 07:22:31 AM

Your EDT right?, so your time should be 7.25 now, as I post this.

Title: Re: Layo clock is wrong??
Post by: Stephen_Zuckerman on June 20, 2007, 10:21:56 AM

It's actually based directly on your computer's clock, and then just plugs your time in and alters it for the timezone you selected.

For example, I selected EST (automatically apply daylight savings time). So the Layo clock determines that I'm GMT -5, but wait! DST! I'm GMT-4.

Then it displays GMT-7, GMT-4, GMT+-0, and GM+10.

If I had been on Central time, I'd be GMT-6, with DST that's -5.

So the layo clock would go, hey! He's -5! That means that GMT is five hours ahead of his computer clock. SH'BAM! Calculations from the assumed GMT ensue!

Okay, maybe that made sense, maybe not. I need to sleep more often. @.@

Title: Re: Layo clock is wrong??
Post by: Serissa on June 20, 2007, 11:10:10 AM

I have my options set correctly, and at the bottom of the options page it says:
 

"All times are GMT -4. The time now is 11:10 AM."

but

Layonara (nwn/sou/hotu-1.68)
Version 3.00.4 (http://forums.layonara.com/layonara-server/113498-new-version-online-v3.html#post472406)
 jsClocks(); PDT-> 7:10:15 AM
EDT-> 10:10:15 AM
GMT-> 2:10:15 PM
AEST-> 12:10:15 AM

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Title: Re: Layo clock is wrong??
Post by: Rowana on June 20, 2007, 11:24:02 AM

What is your DST option set to?
~row

Title: Re: Layo clock is wrong??
Post by: lonnarin on June 20, 2007, 11:49:01 AM

I just checked my options and while mine are set to my timeszone EST with automatic Daylight Savings management, the clock is an hour off.  In Florida it is currently 11:50am, and layo says its 12:50pm EDT.

.... and for some reason my post's timestamp reads 10:50am

Title: Re: Layo clock is wrong??
Post by: Serissa on June 20, 2007, 05:21:06 PM

Option is currently set to DST correction always on

Title: Re: Layo clock is wrong??
Post by: Leanthar on June 20, 2007, 05:25:20 PM

I am in CA. and the time is 2:27pm, the EDT should be 5:27pm and that is what it states.
 
 I don't know what to say, the clocks are correct as far as I am seeing them. Sorry.

Title: Re: Layo clock is wrong??
Post by: lonnarin on June 20, 2007, 06:55:24 PM

AHa! I just got off work and came home to my main gaming computer, and both the forum clock and posting timestamps are synched up perfectly.  It only goes out of synch when I use my old laptop at work.  That computer though is notorious for the clock going back and forth... so I don't think the time synch problems are inherent to our site's coding.

Title: Re: Layo clock is wrong??
Post by: Stephen_Zuckerman on June 21, 2007, 05:48:43 PM

Instead of "DST always on" you should set it to automatically adjust.

That should fix it, if my hunch is right.

Title: Re: Layo clock is wrong??
Post by: lonnarin on June 22, 2007, 02:40:03 PM

Ok, I think I found the fix to this.  I checked my forum options which already had DST Autoadjust toggled on, but the times were still offset.  I then doubleclicked the little clock at the bottom right of my taskbar to open the clock options of WIndows XP, and found that the automatic DST adjustements were turned off...  I turned it back on, applied the changes and reloaded the forum... And now the Layo Forum clocks, my computer clocks and realtime are finally matching up.

So the solution is: Turn on Auto-DST adjustment for both the forum options AND the Windows clock options.  Should work.

Title: Re: Layo clock is wrong??
Post by: Serissa on June 22, 2007, 04:54:00 PM

Yes!  That did it!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!