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I've just had to change the dst setting in user cp. Couldn't it be set automaticly? I think coding that in PHP is easy (for WDZ) and maybe that would be one sql query less (i dunno)...

btw, the dst should be enabled from the 1:00 am (GMT) of sunday of last weekend of march to 1:00 am (GMT) of sunday of last weekend of october.

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Originally posted by Choli
btw, the dst should be enabled from the 1:00 am (GMT) of sunday of last weekend of march to 1:00 am (GMT) of sunday of last weekend of october.

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Surely this depends on where you are in the world? In the USA its the first sunday of April, not the last in March. A lot of work for a simple check of a box twice a year.

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Originally posted by Johnny_Mac
Surely this depends on where you are in the world? In the USA its the first sunday of April, not the last in March

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do people in usa use dst? I thought dst was only used in europe well, In that case why is the change day there other day than in europe?

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Originally posted by Johnny_Mac
A lot of work for a simple check of a box twice a year.

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you have to go to user cp, edit options, scroll down, select the option and click update.. too much work.... j/k

Me and WDZ discussed this the other day in the s/b.

Its used in Canada and USA, and Europe mainly. However I do believe its used in other countries... Possibly NZ?

I have no idea why they're different dates. Maybe a snoop about this stie will help.

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/home.htm

DST is different in many countries... I think it would actually be quite difficult to code auto-correction, though I've never tried...

BTW, I've never seen it done on other forums either...

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Originally posted by WDZ
BTW, I've never seen it done on other forums either...

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I believe vBulletinBoard can automatically adjust it

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Originally posted by WDZ
DST is different in many countries... I think it would actually be quite difficult to code auto-correction, though I've never tried...

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i understand you

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Originally posted by WDZ
BTW, I've never seen it done on other forums either...

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one more reason to add it : MyBB, the first forums with auto-dst setting j/k

we have dst here too
Maybe if we had the possibility to choose when the time will change on the forums..
cause i had to change the time last week

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Originally posted by Tochjo
I believe vBulletinBoard can automatically adjust it

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What version? I'm pretty sure 2.3.x can't...

Edit: Looks like vB 3 has the feature... it uses Javascript...

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-72234

I guess that makes sense, because it's the only way to get the the user's time offset automatically...

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var tzOffset = $bbuserinfo[timezoneoffset] + $bbuserinfo[dstonoff];
var utcOffset = new Date().getTimezoneOffset() / 60;
if (Math.abs(tzOffset + utcOffset) == 1)
{ // Dst offset is 1 so its changed
document.forms.dstform.submit();
}

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