Mad Modders' UK Time - Is It a Bug or Is It a Feature?

[Pete W.]

Hi there, all,

Mad Modders is telling me that the time is 06:20:21 PM but my computer and our radio clock are telling me that it's 17:22 GMT  (I'm in the UK).  (Allow the couple of minutes for the time it's taken me to type this.)

Does this one hour discrepancy result from my setting up my profile incorrectly?        

We're not due to change to British Summer Time for another week yet.

Oh, and by the way, thank you, Mad Modders, for my 2013 birthday greetings but you were a day late!          

I think     , I benefit from and enjoy all the advice and encouragement I receive and taking an interest in other Mad Modders' projects BUT this time discrepancy thing bugs me. 

[awemawson]

Pete,

Not quite the issue you have, but what is bugging me is that "06:20 PM" doesn't exist in my book. It is either "6:20 PM" which is time for a gin and tonic and described in the 12 hour clock , or "06:20" which is time for a soft boiled egg and coffee just after getting up in the morning and described in the 24 hour clock. Thus "06:20:21 PM" is neither fish nor fowl .

Incidentally, with the slight discrepancy above allowed for the forum time shows correctly for me on this post

[Spurry]

You just neeed to tweak the settings in the profile section. It is possible to get correct UK date settings, viz day month year, and a correctly reading 24 hr clock.
Pete

[SwarfnStuff]

Huh  Here I sit Downunder never realised the site mentioned time at all. So, now that I have looked I see the time is reading 3:30 AM when it is actually 6:36pm Eastern Daylight saving time here. Nuther thing I have leared from this site, not sure how useful it is but.

[Fergus OMore]

Frankly, it is all daft!  I can vaguely recall that Easter is the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Vernal Equinox. If it is cloudy- bang goes another year!

[Pete W.]

Well,

A bit of a red face here!          
I must have set up my profile when we (in the UK) were on British Summer Time (BST).  I've put it right now.

But do I have to manually adjust to BST when the time comes or does the Mad Modders web-site software know the BST algorithm?

And do I still need to do anything about the date?  I'm seeing March 24th right now.          

[Spurry]

Mine reads:  24 March 2014, 09:00:22. So it is possible to rearrange to UK norm.
Pete

[David Jupp]

Well I must be missing something - my UK time is 2 hours out.  I can't find any options to change anything to do with local time in my profile.  It'll just have to stay as it is.

[JD]

I sorted mine by going into Profile, Account Settings, Look and Layout and select Auto Detect along side time off set.
Mine now reads correct Date and Time.
John W

[David Jupp]

Thanks JD - that 'Look and Layout' took some finding....

[tom osselton]

I don't ever look at that I have a watch!

[Pete W.]

Hi there, all,

First of all, thank you to Mad Modders for your message, received this morning, sending me Birthday Greetings.          

However, just like last year, your message came just one day late!          

I've checked the settings in my profile and they are correct as to my birthdate.

What's going on here??????????? 

[awemawson]

This cannot be true - I remember no invitation to a Birthday Party 

[tom osselton]

It's always better late than ever HAPPY BIRTHDAY! 

[Brass_Machine]

Hi there, all,

First of all, thank you to Mad Modders for your message, received this morning, sending me Birthday Greetings.          

However, just like last year, your message came just one day late!          

I've checked the settings in my profile and they are correct as to my birthdate.

What's going on here???????????

Hi Pete,

I am not sure why it is coming one day late. The server is setup to use the eastern time zone (NYC), so with you setting your offset, it should come on time. I would say it is a bug that it doesn't...