You probably want to set the time to the time your wiki's server is set
to. If the server's OS takes care of the daylight saving time and you
just want the wiki to read the time from the server put the following in
your LocalSettings.php file:
------------------------------
##Set Default Timezone for East Coast time (EST/EDT):
$wgLocaltimezone = "America/New_Tork";
$oldtz = getenv("TZ");
putenv("TZ=$wgLocaltimezone");
$wgLocalTZoffset = date("Z") / 3600;
putenv("TZ=$oldtz");
------------------------------
If your version of Mediawiki is old (1.6 or less), you may need to
change the "3600" to "60".
For more help:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Timezone
Also, confirm that your account doesn't have a different preference set.
You can see your preferences by logging in and hitting the "preferences"
link at the top of the page. Any settings there would only effect that
account.
-Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Frederich, Eric P21322 [mailto:eric.frederich@siemens.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 11:23 AM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] timestamps
Thanks Rob.
But if I have to manually change it between -5 and -4 myself whenever
daylight savings time kicks in, won't that display wrong information for
other days?
For example. A month ago I was UTC - 5 and made edits at 8:00 am.
Today I'm at UTC - 4.
I'm just guessing here, but if I go and look at those edits from a month
ago, won't it say that they were made at 9:00?
~Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Rob Church
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2007 11:16 AM
To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] timestamps
On 03/04/07, Frederich, Eric P21322 <eric.frederich(a)siemens.com> wrote:
I am unfamiliar with UTC time and whether or not that
takes daylight
savings time into account.
No.
I live in Florida in the US Eastern Time zone. If I
leave it at -5
will
it take daylight savings time into account or do I
need to do that
manually?
You need to set the offset to be correct, i.e. the number of hours your
current time differs from UTC. You should be able to just click the
button to read the value from the browser.
Rob Church
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