Topic: [site wide activity] problem with time

[site wide activity] problem with time

smdnizam
Participant

@smdnizam

15 years, 8 months ago

Hi all,

Im using buddypress in my site, the problem i face is with the time in the “Site Wide Activity” widget. It shows “11 hours and 30 mins ago” (which is the time difference between my location and my server location) instead of “0 mins ago”.

I have updated the time zone using php.ini file to my location timings.

I haven’t checked up in the “members” widget yet.

Please help me with some suggestions.

Regards,

Nizam

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Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

15 years, 8 months ago

Have you checked the timezone setting in the WPMU settings?

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

15 years, 8 months ago

Oh, and it is worth noting that any changes you make to the timezone won’t be retrospectively applied to the old activity. You’ll have to test if your changes are working with new activity.

smdnizam
Participant

@smdnizam

15 years, 8 months ago

Hi Paul,

I checked with WPMU timezone settings.

I have set the proper time zone settings in it already.

Also I posted this query only after making all the changes. And i found the new activity too shows the “11 hours and 30 mins ago”.

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

15 years, 8 months ago

Ah it is a known bug. Check out ticket 257 on the trac. Seems to have a patch attached, not sure if it has been applied to the trunk yet.

Burt Adsit
Participant

@burtadsit

15 years, 8 months ago

This is a known, unfixed issue with wp and thus wpmu and thus bp. It comes from wp using server time instead of gmt time.

smdnizam
Participant

@smdnizam

15 years, 7 months ago

Hi Burtadsit,

I don’t get your point.

the “Site Wide Activity” is managed by buddypress and the records are stored thru bp code. as up to my knowledge. if this is the case then how can the problem be originated from bp?

your explanation could help me in understanding the problem more and could help me in working out for the solution.

Regards

Nizam

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

15 years, 7 months ago

Hi Smdnizam,

BuddyPress is built on WordPress MU which in turn is built on WordPress. The root cause of this bug is in WordPress. Until WordPress and WordPress MU apply a fix, it won’t appear fixed in BuddyPress.

smdnizam
Participant

@smdnizam

15 years, 7 months ago

Hi Paul,

thanks for ur info.

but still im buzzed with this bug

will wait for wp to fix it.

is this bug has been reported already or should i report it.

if you know any track id please let me know so i could follow it.

thanks for ur time.

Regards

Nizam

Paul Wong-Gibbs
Keymaster

@djpaul

15 years, 7 months ago

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8662

probably should poke them about it, oh and you could always apply that patch to your local install in the interim.

smdnizam
Participant

@smdnizam

15 years, 7 months ago

thnx dude,

will work out with the patch and will get back

alunsina
Participant

@alunsina

15 years, 5 months ago

were you able to work out the patch? my sitewide is still running an hour behind. im using my server time.

smdnizam
Participant

@smdnizam

15 years, 5 months ago

No the patch itself contained error and it rolled my head more…

Still looking out for a solution…..

if you get to know one please let me know….

smdnizam
Participant

@smdnizam

15 years, 5 months ago

i believe the correction given in the following link must work….

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/current_time

but still I haven tried it out…

if you do so let me know whether it was useful