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[AmySafeunderdark]

I looked into adding EET/EEST into the forum's timezone database, but apparently it's not a straightforward process on vBulletin and would require some reprogramming of the forum's code. I can give it a go sometime, but I can't guarantee that I can do it.

Best,
BB_Alpaca

Please be careful with that BB_Alpaca,
It requires some text editing and may need some database adjustments.
It would not be the first time a generous Admin corrupting the whole forum, just because of a member request
Not because I don't think you can't do it, but because I needed to help a friend who did just that
It's very tricky.

But the option to select GMT+1 and set the 'automatically detect DST setting' should do the trick.
Best is to see why his setting are reset to GMT+1, maybe his timezone is GMT+1 with DST (that would make it GMT+2)

just my 2 cents

[Durin_d]

My time zone is EET == GMT+2 (Finland) and we still use DST (EEST) so the GMT+2 (GMT+3 with DST) is correct for me.

I hope that vBulletin isn't that stupid that it takes the location/language from my browser and makes the adjustment according to that.

ifconfig.me info:
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.76 Safari/537.36
Language: en-GB,en;q=0.8,fi;q=0.6

[BB_Alpaca]

Please be careful with that BB_Alpaca,
It requires some text editing and may need some database adjustments.
It would not be the first time a generous Admin corrupting the whole forum, just because of a member request
Not because I don't think you can do it, but because I needed to help a friend who did just that
It's very tricky.

But the option to select GMT+1 and set the 'automatically detect DST setting' should do the trick.
Best is to see why his setting are reset to GMT+1, maybe his timezone is GMT+1 with DST (that would make it GMT+2)

just my 2 cents

I am always careful-- I have programming experience in much more difficult languages than HTML. However, vBulletin is the unknown as it is not the most responsively designed forum system to exist. I will check it out, but I can't promise anything!

EDIT: Durin_d, I've manually set your timezone-- check if it's working now?

Best,
BB_Alpaca

[Durin_d]

I checked my time zone and it was GMT+2, logged out, visited the forum and tried to see couple of player profiles, logged in and time zone was reset to GMT+1.

I tested this same on tsotesting.com and this happens there also.

[BB_Alpaca]

Hm, that is really odd... I will investigate it further and update when I've got something.

Best,
BB_Alpaca

[AmySafeunderdark]

I am always careful-- I have programming experience in much more difficult languages than HTML. However, vBulletin is the unknown as it is not the most responsively designed forum system to exist. I will check it out, but I can't promise anything!

Best,
BB_Alpaca

Just read back, and saw it

I don't think you can do it

This is or "because I think you can do it" or "because I don't think you can't do it" (shame...)
Maybe you didn't notice, or read it the way it was intended -lol-

Anyway, I have all the trust in the world in you, I just know vBulletin can be very tricky
just needed to say that, just in case it is explained wrong. Not my intention.

About the timezone problems, I know there can some strange things happen with vBulletin.
I'll try and see if I can duplicate the timezone error.
It is possible a system setting is overruling user-settings, if server-setting is GMT+1
or the client detects the client-setting wrong, if a JavaScript is running to automatically adjust time setting.

Something to look into

Be safe

Edit:
set GMT+3 logout
Log in: time is now GMT+3 (automatically detect DST setting) making it GMT+4

Will try it the other way around now..
stays the same, Can't reproduce the problem....
Was thinking it did, but goofed up myself, so redid it

BTW: log in to forum does not work, you need to log in at tso homepage, it gives an error.
Weird..

[BB_Alpaca]

BTW: log in to forum does now work, you need to log in at homepage, forum log in does not work
this is weird..

IIRC, this has always been the case. You must log in at the front page and that is by design.

Best,
BB_Alpaca

[Durin_d]

So I'm not the only one who has this problem.

I've tried to repeat this by logging out but without luck. There might be some timeout time when this happens.

I found this on vBulletin forum:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...zone-in-usercp

Testing update:
I was logged out for 1h from tsotesting.com and after that my timezone changed.

[AmySafeunderdark]

IIRC, this has always been the case. You must log in at the front page and that is by design.

Best,
BB_Alpaca

OK, another thing that should be fixed:
The forum login-page should redirect to front page, and not show the forum login page

[BB_Alpaca]

OK, another thing that should be fixed:
The forum login-page should redirect to front page, and not show the forum login page

If it is possible, I will add it to my list and do it when time presents itself.

Best,
BB_Alpaca