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The problem is you need to adjust your time zone.

For the “time since” to work correctly, the timezone setting for your root blog has to match the time on your server.

You can change it under “Settings > General” in your /wp-admin/ area.

That is an entirely different topic, Sushubh, you need to post that as a trac ticket or on a separate forum post here with more detail.

I figured out that if you set the time settings in Settings / General and you have another language installed, it is getting resetted. When its default its fine by me, as soon as I adjust WPLANG into nl_NL the notice is back again.

edit: I uploaded the dutch pack to wordpress MU and got all fixed, only the Members widget (New tab) is showing [Adjust Time Zone]

Is there another way to get this fixed, besides adjusting it to your server time? Im running this website for Dutch people, while my server is in the VS.

there is no way to fix the thing at the moment? I have a server in america and my users are in italy …

Arturo, Andy Peatling is the main (only?) developer behind BuddyPress. He should know when he says something like that.

Hi Andy

I’d appreciate a fix for this as soon as you can get around to it.

I’m sure many people are hosting their websites outside of their own timezones and this “bug” will cause some headaches for users.

It’s not really going to cause that many headaches – it’s not like the time is actually displaying – it’s the “time since”.

Your time zone is irrelevant – it’s still going to say “active 45 minutes ago”. The only bug would be that blog posts would state they were posted at the time of the server not the local time. I can’t call that one a blocker though, but it will be addressed.

Thanks Andy – that was what I was referring to.

Appreciate your attention.

Look forward to more great work.

Here is my temporal solution:

add_action( 'bp_activity_before_save', "ftblg_bp_timezone_bug" );

function ftblg_bp_timezone_bug($activity) {

$blog_time_offset=get_option('gmt_offset') * 3600;

$server_time_offset=-6 * 3600;

$activity->date_recorded = $activity->date_recorded - $blog_time_offset;

$activity->date_recorded = $activity->date_recorded + $server_time_offset;

}

change ‘-6’ for the server time zone.

This works ok if you are not using bbpress: if you are, the date posted in group forum will be reflected as “Posted -1 years ago” in bbpress post! With this, the whole post navigation in bbpress will start with earliest first, and first post at the last page (which is 1yr in future).

Arghh.. can someone help.

thanks