Mine is showing 6 hours ago for a forum entry I just entered.
Looks like it is displaying the time in GMT. Now if I can change that.
My settings under general is for CDT.
What versions of bbPress and BuddyPress are you using, and which is displaying the wrong time?
I am using WordPress 3.5. , BuddyPress Version 1.6.2, BBPress Version 2.2.3
BBPress is displaying the correct time, Buddpyress activity displays the correct time I.E “posted 5 seconds ago” But times are wrong in Dashboard > Activity , which causes searching for activity updates along with plugins such as BuddyPress Component Stats to pull the wrong times.
i am also seeing a discrepancy between front end activity time stamps and what is shown in wp admin. i think whats happening at least for us is that the wp admin area is showing gmt time regardless of the local time. example:
latest post:
published – 13:54 local time (GMT-8)
front activity entry – 54 minutes ago
wp admin activity time stamp – 9:54 PM
current time – 14:48
current version of bbpress/buddypress/wp/multisite
I know this thread is old, but I want to help those that are in the same boat as I am in while searching for this issue on Google, I hope it is also pertinent to this thread fully as I believe these issues are linked together.
I was having an issue with this too, where the activity streams on the home page were showing times that are 7 hours off because of GMT time being 7 hours off from me.
This problem can easily be fixed by setting your WordPress’s main timezone settings to something like -8 instead of the city name ie; Los Angeles.
But I could not go this route because I’m currently using Ajax Event Calendar plugin, which requires the timezone to be a city name for some weird reason. Thus I had two plugins that wanted two conflicting things.
This is the fix I came up with that seems to work just fine for me : )
In buddypress: \bp-core\bp-core-functions.php
Find: function bp_core_time_since
Change: $newer_date = ( !$newer_date ) ? strtotime( bp_core_current_time() ) : $newer_date;
so that bp_core_current_time() becomes bp_core_current_time(false)
This passes over to the bp_core_current_time() which defaults as true which sets it to automatically handle the activity time differences as GMT instead of your time zone.
I’m not a WordPress pro but it looked like you could just hook into this function if you wanted to or override it, but this was the route I knew how to take.
pretty sure @trishasalas patched that in either 1.8 or 1.8.1
Here is the actual patch
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/7240
After you implement the patch, go into Settings and change your Timezone.
Yes, this is actually in core now…I believe it was 1.8. It had been using date_i18n() and now it is using get_date_from_gmt().
If your times are still off make sure your BuddyPress is up to date and that should fix the problem.
I have Version 1.8.1
Isn’t that patch only for the admin panel stuff it sounds like?
My times were incorrect on the activity widget, so I went deep to fix the activity problem I was having.
I just installed Buddypress today, the latest version and for some reason when I write on the activity stream it says 6 hours ago.
Looks like this could be the same issue even with the update. Any simple way to fix this issue? Thanks.
William
Hi there,
I know this issue was fixed for some people, but I still have this problem
I have BP 1.8.1 and WP 3.7.1
I checked the status of the patch here:
https://buddypress.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4573
and using this modification I was able to fix the problem on the activity time, but the problem on comment time not yet.
When I write a status update, after apply the patch the activity time render fine, but if I write something in the comment of the activity, the time say that the comment was 4 hours ago.
The patch that I used, supposedly is already included in the latest version of BP, but it is not 🙁
Anyone know how can I apply any fix to the comments too?
I posted a note
– In the front end Activity feed at 3:40 pm (correct time)
– Dashboard > Activity shows 10:40 am (5 hours backwards)
Someone posted a note
– In the BBpress forum at 10:59 am (correct time)
– Front end Activity feed shows 3:59 pm (5 hours forward)
– Dashboard > Activity shows 10:59 am. (correct time)
BuddyPress 1.8.1
bbPress 2.4.1
Hi there,
Digging a bit I found this topic that describes my problem as well.
Could you please inform me how to solve the issue with the time difference between bbpress and buddy press?
Buddypress: 2.0.3
Wordpress: 4.0
BBPress: 2.5.4
Theme: Twenty Fourteen
Regards
Finally, in my case the problem was solved by switching the time setting (Dashboard – Settings – General – Timezone) from location to UTC.
Regards
mgkoller
@mgkoller
11 years, 10 months ago
I have both Buddypress and BBpress installed on my site. When I post a update in my BBpress Forum @ 12:52pm, the update shows the correct time
When I post the the same exact update @ 12:52pm in my Buddypress Activity section it shows the post “posted an update 5 seconds ago Test post”
But when I look at this activity update under dashboard > activity , it shows
Why is BBPress displaying the correct time but Buddypress activity shows a several hour time difference? Is this something that needs to be changed in my BuddyPress settings?