How to change timezone for Anonymous user?

By someguy on 26 Jul 2003 at 06:17 UTC

Hi,

As my server is located in a different part of the world to the people actually usuing the site I'd like to know how I can change the timezone for anonymous users.

Thanks v. much.

Comments

anyone? :)

someguy commented 27 July 2003 at 23:23

anyone? :)

I think there is no standard

killes@www.drop.org commented 31 July 2003 at 22:17

I think there is no standard way to do this.

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It should be possible

rossta7@yahoo.com commented 2 August 2003 at 15:13

What error are you getting?

We don't have a setting that lets you set the default timezone yet; currently the default timezone is inherited from the server's date. Despite the fact a default timezone setting has been requested, no one is working on this (that I know of).

Fixed?

jaskegreen commented 22 January 2004 at 08:57

Has this been fixed yet? I have been racking my brain for days trying to figure out why anonymous user event times are three hours off; the host is in OH. This could be a real bummer for my site's members; showing up at the wrong time to an event. Please reply soon, thanks.

Jason

Is there at least a temporary default timezone fix?

mason commented 29 March 2004 at 00:14

Even if it's a nasty kludge ... that would be better than nothing.

Set timezone for uid = 0

nereocystis commented 4 April 2004 at 22:25

An easy way to handle this is to set the timezone field in table users for uid = 0, which is anonymous. Look at the other values of timezone for examples.

update users set timezone=-28800 where uid = 0;

or whatever you want your default timezone to be.

I also set the timezone to default to -28800 for new users, which is really the offset for Pacific Standard Time, rather than Pacific Daylight Time.

alter tables users alter timezone set default -28800;

I have also modified the event slightly to handle time zone changes better. This patch is available here.

Note that timezone does not change for summer. This is a serious bug.

Note that the anonymous user does not show up in ?q=admin/user.