Reply To: Activity Stream Time is off (posted an update in 5 hours)
Some things to check:
1. Check the timestamps at Dashboard > Activity. Are they off as well?
2. Are in timezone UTC-5 (US Eastern)? Just so we have a better understanding of what’s going on.
3. You say the “server time” is “set correctly”. Can you say more about what this means?
4. Are timestamps for WP content (like posts and comments) correctly displayed?
5. When you look in the database – wp_bp_activity, the date_recorded column – what do the timestamps look like? Are they UTC or in your local timezone?
It’s generally recommend to keep PHP in UTC and to allow WP/BP to do the timezone offsets; see https://weston.ruter.net/2013/04/02/do-not-change-the-default-timezone-from-utc-in-wordpress/ for one account. My guess is that your server time is set to local time, so that things are getting double-adjusted. How this can best be fixed depends on whether only activity items are affected, or if it’s all items on the installation.
