re: $conf['app']['timezone']

[spaceageliving]

I'm on a shared hosting environment where the server reports its time set to GMT (I think, from what I have deduced...PHP's time functions indicate GMT when I call them anyway).

I set $conf['app']['timezone'] = -5 since I want the calendar to reflect EST.  However, the calendar is "greying out" entries for the day starting at 10:00PM EST--which means, I think, that the calendar believes 12am is really 10pm (calendar is running 2 hours early...).

Is this a php/time zone issue, or am I using $conf['app']['timezone'] correctly?  If I'm not mistaken, I would need to use $conf['app']['timezone'] = -3 to adjust this correctly, which is probably Iceland (IST) or something ;-).

TIA--David

[Nick]

You can figure out what timezone the server is using with this function:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-default-timezone-get.php

Also, if you have the reservation minimum notice time set to 3 hours with timezone at -5, you would also see the same result.

[spaceageliving]

Nick--this is probably a "duh" question, but I can't find the reservation minimum notice time setting anywhere...is it in config.php?

Also, it looks like date_default_timezone_get is a php5-only function?

[Nick]

That setting is in the resource management admin page.

Another way to check the timezone of the server is just print out the date('d-M-Y H:i:s');  Then you can compare to your local time and figure out the right timezone.

[spaceageliving]

I see 'Minimum Reservation Time' (which is set to 0/0), but I don't think this is the setting you are referring to (reservation min notice time)...am I missing something?

[spaceageliving]

OK, so I ran date(); as you suggested and it looks like the server is running GMT since it is 8 hours ahead of PST.

Oddly, users are "greyed out" of the calendar entries for the day at 8:30pm EST when I'm running:

$conf['app']['timezone'] = -5;

...in an attempt to have the calendar reflect EST.

Must this be due to the reservation min notice time setting which you have referred to?

[Nick]

That's possible.  Or it may be a bug somewhere in the code.