Is there a way to set a Time Zone on your site?

I responded to a message and it says 02:37 when it's 21:37 here. So all of the timestamps are wrong for me on your message board. So the timestamps are useless.

I responded to a message and it says 02:37 when it's 21:37 here. So all of the timestamps are wrong for me on your message board. So the timestamps are useless.

Message 93435 - Posted: 31 Oct 2019, 2:41:53 UTC

It does say, "UTC" which for those of us in UK is still sometimes called Greenwich mean time. It means they are correct for us in UK at least during the winter. I think it may be a consequence of using the BOINC software to manage the boards.

I think it may be a consequence of using the BOINC software to manage the boards.

It's because the BOINC server uses UTC for all communications. It's easier for projects to use UTC as their standard time and have the humans translate that to their own time, than to have all computers from all over the world have to translate their own time (of completion of tasks for instance) into the time of where the server of the project is. Aside from daylight saving time shenanigans, it also gets problematic if a project has servers in different countries with all their own times and time zones. Thus the use of the universal standard UTC.

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