Time zone

What's up with the time lately? I'll check someone's profile to see when they are last active and it'll say 7:30 PM today when it is only 1:00 PM where I am. Is the server in a different time zone? I'd assume yes. Which one so I can add/subtract accordingly.

Currently the server is on Greenwich Main Time (GMT), though I still have a todo item that allows you to select a timezone so that all times are automatically converted to your local time.

Son of a nut cracker!

-6 hours. Fitting, because that's about the temperature here.

I believe this is fixed?

Nothing has changed

Ah crud.

Has this been fixed? Because I set the timezone at my profile settings and it displays that data is saved but when I leave the page it gets back to blank.

not fixed.

I live in the UK and the time is wrong. It's going by BWT. When is this being fixed so it goes by the time zone you live in?

If you and the people you play with see different times because of the different timezones, that can lead to communication problems. I sometimes ask for times in the log, and if you see something different than me, that could be an issue.

So, as a consequence, we have to pick a single timezone that everyone sees - the obvious choice is to pick the same timezone as that the server runs in, which is UTC.

Technically you store all of the time as UTC and then when displaying convert it at that time to the users time. Everything would then run in sync at that point. For your asking for time you could also provide the ability to just doubleclick on a time that is say CST for me and have it alert the UTC time. Or even provide a quick toggle on things that would convert times back to UTC real quick if needed.

The problem is not at the server end, it's at the users end when, for example, users are typing the time of, say, logs lines in chat.

That was the reason for not changing this a while back at least. I never really bothered about it.