Forum Timezone Display?

Eldor

Member Location: Montreal, Canada Joined: Feb 27, 2015 10:13 Messages: 112 Offline

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Mar 09, 2015 19:07

Sorry if this isn't an appropriate post in this section but I don't see any forum section specifically for forum questions...

I'm in Montreal Canada, on Eastern time, and in my profile settings I don't see any way of setting my time zone. So all the timestamps on messages here appear on some different time zone. Most boards have a user-configurable setting somewhere to specify the user's time zone. Am I missing that somewhere?

Thanks

Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Mar 10, 2015 05:15

Quote: Sorry if this isn't an appropriate post in this section but I don't see any forum section specifically for forum questions...

I'm in Montreal Canada, on Eastern time, and in my profile settings I don't see any way of setting my time zone. So all the timestamps on messages here appear on some different time zone. Most boards have a user-configurable setting somewhere to specify the user's time zone. Am I missing that somewhere?

Thanks

You're not missing anything. The ability to alter the forum displayed timezone for your post is not possible.
Dafydd

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

Mar 10, 2015 11:31

Quote: Sorry if this isn't an appropriate post in this section but I don't see any forum section specifically for forum questions...

I'm in Montreal Canada, on Eastern time, and in my profile settings I don't see any way of setting my time zone. So all the timestamps on messages here appear on some different time zone. Most boards have a user-configurable setting somewhere to specify the user's time zone. Am I missing that somewhere?

Thanks

You may not be able to alter your Time Zone, but you can include your Location in your Profile.

You will notice I am in Texas, USA, that makes my Time Zone Central Time.
You can also make a note in your Signature.

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Eldor

Member Location: Montreal, Canada Joined: Feb 27, 2015 10:13 Messages: 112 Offline

Mar 10, 2015 11:58

You may have noticed that I did include my location in my profile (when I joined).

I am surprised that this board doesn't allow a user to configure his local time zone, especially since that is a feature on all of the (many!) boards I'm a member of. I'm sure this forum software has that feature, but for some reason management here didn't enable it.

Seeing the time a message was posted IN YOUR OWN LOCAL TIME makes it very easy to see what's new and most recent.

In any case, I can live with it.

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You may not be able to alter your Time Zone, but you can include your Location in your Profile.

stevek

Senior Contributor Location: Houston, Texas USA Joined: Jan 25, 2011 12:18 Messages: 4663 Offline

Mar 10, 2015 12:20

Not exactly what you are looking for but did you notice the "Recent Topics" at the top of this page. That should help ! .
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