Can Members time zone be changed??

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Can Members time zone be changed??

I cannot see any place in my Members Profile page where my time zone can be set or changed. All I can see is:
All times are GMT -7. The time now is 07:11 AM.

For example, my last recent post is stamped 7:01 AM
The actual time where I live should have been 6:01 AM PST, and no, I'm NOT usually up at this time but had to get my wife to the airport for her 5:00am flight!!!

I'm sure I recall being able to change the time stamp of one's posts in Settings but I can't find it.
Did Apple move and hide that as well??? :Mischievous:

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Maybe it has to do with your ISP location?

I don't remember that option when I joined.
 

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The Settings page where you can make that change is a little busted right now, so we will have to make that change for you. However, your time zone is actually correctly set as Pacific (GMT -8), so not sure why you are seeing GMT -7. I'm seeing GMT -5 correctly being in EST.
 
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The Settings page where you can make that change is a little busted right now, so we will have to make that change for you.


I wondered if that goofed up page was the most likely place.

This is what I see at the bottom of the page as I started to type this:
All times are GMT -7. The time now is 09:46 AM.

It is now actually 8:52 AM PST as I post this.

So the time shown on the post is an hour out for me, Heaven knows what the actual time is for other posters:
Today, 09:52 AM



EDIT:
However, your time zone is actually correctly set as Pacific (GMT -8), so not sure why you are seeing GMT -7. I'm seeing GMT -5 correctly being in EST.
According to world timeserver, my time settings here should be:

8:58:11 AM
November 9, 2018
Pacific Standard Time (PST) -0800 UTC

UTC/GMT is 16:57 on November 9, 2018



Well, at that time it was correct!!! :Oops:







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Test post at 9:10 AM PST from here in BC.





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EDIT:

It seems that some setting from mac-forums is still set for DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME for my time stamp going on the times showing here, as it's ahead ONE HOUR.




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Your test post at 9:10 shows up as 12:10 for me which is correct. And it is now 12:14 as I respond.
 
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Is this how I should be seeing your post which is showing as Today, 10:14 AM for me???:

Screen Shot 2018-11-09 at 9.17.18 AM.png




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Your test post at 9:10 shows up as 12:10 for me which is correct. And it is now 12:14 as I respond.


Did we not have the option, at least before the owner changeover, to have posts timestamped with either the actual time of the poster's post or the time relative to the readers timezone.??





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This is what I see and that looks correct. Not sure why something is adding an hour for you.
 
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This is what I see and that looks correct. Not sure why something is adding an hour for you.

I have no idea but things don't seem to appear as they should be doing. Here are the same two shots as I see them:

Screen Shot 2018-11-09 at 10.52.33 AM.png




Screen Shot 2018-11-09 at 10.53.02 AM.png





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And here's a shot of your MA Time shown for me at 11:00 AM PST my time and seems to be a three hour time difference to me:

Screen Shot 2018-11-09 at 11.00.20 AM.png




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Patrick:

I just checked the master data base and it correctly shows your location as Pacific Standard Time, GMT-8. Not sure what's happening to show an incorrect time for your posts, but it shows up okay for me as Ashwin has pointed out.

Just quit time traveling and stay in the present.... LOL.
 

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As they say Patrick, "it's not me, it's you" :)
 
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Just quit time traveling and stay in the present.... LOL.


Oh my God, I'm not even a Trekkie or Trekker and yet here I am being timestamped to boldly go where no one has gone before it seems.

And we all know there are some members just itching to post their comment that I'm always behind the times, but not so it seems, depending on how one looks at things. ;D





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As they say Patrick, "it's not me, it's you" :)



Actually, I don't know if it is just me but something's messed up between the server and my Mac and I don't know what.

A bit odd as date and time stamps with computers are usually spot on.


PS: Posted here @ 2:00 PM PST.





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PS: Posted here @ 2:00 PM PST.

And.. it shows up at my end as 4:00 PM CST. (Which would be correct.) :)

I guess someone pulled the plug on your H.G. Wells Time Machine. LOL
 

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