How do I change the time for my PHPNUke 6.5 site?

Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 10:37 pm

I want to change it to British Summer Time (BST).

I know the Forums is different and set by the user, but my articles are showing MDT time zone along with my Shoutbox.

Thanks.

Joined: Jan 31, 2004 Posts: -88

set the locale info in the preferences setup to en_GB and en_gb respectively (the preferences in hte nuke admin panel - there are 2 places to change it)

AI

Lieutenant Joined: Jan 23, 2003 Posts: 258 Location: USA

What format do you use to change this?

Locale Time Format: ___________

Is there a list? Or perhaps a hack that makes this a dropdown menu?

General Joined: Mar 22, 2003 Posts: 5233 Location: USA

Haven't been able to find one, but read this carefully as it has some more information http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.setlocale.php

Lieutenant Joined: Jan 23, 2003 Posts: 258 Location: USA

Thank you! Smile

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 9:26 am

ArtificialIntel wrote:

set the locale info in the preferences setup to en_GB and en_gb respectively (the preferences in hte nuke admin panel - there are 2 places to change it)

AI

Thanks!

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 9:35 am

ArtificialIntel wrote:

set the locale info in the preferences setup to en_GB and en_gb respectively (the preferences in hte nuke admin panel - there are 2 places to change it)

AI

Done that. It not worky. Crying or Very sad

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 9:58 am

to alter to time for posted news.

Open up mainfile.php and change the line:

Code:

Code:

$datetime = strftime(""._DATESTRING."", mktime($datetime[4],$datetime[5],$datetime[6],$datetime[2],$datetime[3],$datetime[1]));

in the function FormatTimeStamp to:

Code:

Code:

$datetime = gmstrftime(""._DATESTRING."", gmmktime($datetime[4],$datetime[5],$datetime[6],$datetime[2],$datetime[3],$datetime[1])+36000);

replace the +36000 with your time offset from gmt.

Hope this helps.
You may also what to find the line '_DATESTRING' in the lang-english.php and change to %Z to your timezone name.

Posted by SShowron over at http://www.nukemods.com

mikem

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 12:07 pm

Thanks Mike. I don't mind so much about old posts. Its things like my shoutbox that get on my nerves. My site specifically has LONDON in it's name so it's real embarassing to have a shoutbox that it is way out!!!!!

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 12:37 pm

mikem wrote:

to alter to time for posted news.

Open up mainfile.php and change the line:

Code:

Code:

$datetime = strftime(""._DATESTRING."", mktime($datetime[4],$datetime[5],$datetime[6],$datetime[2],$datetime[3],$datetime[1]));

in the function FormatTimeStamp to:

Code:

Code:

$datetime = gmstrftime(""._DATESTRING."", gmmktime($datetime[4],$datetime[5],$datetime[6],$datetime[2],$datetime[3],$datetime[1])+36000);

replace the +36000 with your time offset from gmt.

Hope this helps.
You may also what to find the line '_DATESTRING' in the lang-english.php and change to %Z to your timezone name.

Posted by SShowron over at http://www.nukemods.com

mikem

Lets get this right. You saying that I should replace

define("_DATESTRING","%A, %B %d @ %T %Z");

with

define("_DATESTRING","%A, %B %d @ %T en_gb");

???????????

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 12:45 pm

Yes I think that is right, but I am not sure since I am not the user who posted that code originally.

mikem

Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2003 3:34 pm

All that does is just change what is printed as the timezone. So all it will do is change from "MDT" to "BST" after the time. But the actual time is still wrong.

Help!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 5:08 pm

Help!!! This is still a problem for me. It's real embaressing as everything really works well on my sites, but I can't change the friggin time.

I want to sell preinstalled PHPNuke as part of a web hosting business I am setting up and I can't even think about doing it until I have this problem licked!

I have even tried a British community page. They say en_uk - That doesn't do it for me either.

I have installed PHPNuke completly fresh and then tried both solutions but it just won't change the system time, even after posting test posts.

HELP!!!

Nuke Soldier Joined: Apr 26, 2003 Posts: 14

Hmmm, I thought that nuke got the current time from the host systems date/time/timezone setup. It may be something you have to set up on the server system and not so much nuke config itself.

Did you check your regional settings and those of the server?

Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2003 6:28 pm

Maniax wrote:

Hmmm, I thought that nuke got the current time from the host systems date/time/timezone setup. It may be something you have to set up on the server system and not so much nuke config itself.

Did you check your regional settings and those of the server?

Ah ha....Now this is interesting......I never did change the time zone settings on the server, but the server is not British, it's American. It has to be American because my site is about free speech, something when don't have as a technical sense in the UK.....

I will talk to my hosting company.

Cheers.