Having a time issue on my website

[TalkVirginia]

Down at the bottom my site is showing it is set for GMT -5 with the correct time. However, message post times seem to be way off.. almost 7 hours off. Any idea what would cause this? I just posted a message on my site and site time is showing 5:53pm however the message post time is showing Today at 12:13pm.

[snakes1100]

What time zone is set in the admincp vbulletin options?

[TalkVirginia]

GMT -5 Eastern Time (US & Canada), Bogota, Lima

[snakes1100]

For guests it shows GMT -4 on your forums.

If the date & time options in the admincp is set for GMT -5, then you most likely have a server issue, the DATE cmd would tell you what the server is set to via ssh.

You can slap this in a php and upload it via ftp and tell us what the server date & time is.

<? print(Date("1 F d, Y")); ?>

[TalkVirginia]

That code returned:

1 February 14, 2009

[Dismounted]

Snakes most likely typed up the wrong code, use this instead:
<?php print(date('r')); ?>

[TalkVirginia]

Snakes most likely typed up the wrong code, use this instead:
<?php print(date('r')); ?>

now it returns

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:54:22 -0700

[Dismounted]

It looks like vBulletin is not compensating for the timezone of the server somehow. If you are running PHP 5.2+, try adding this to the end of your config.php:
date_default_timezone_set('GMT');

[TalkVirginia]

It looks like vBulletin is not compensating for the timezone of the server somehow. If you are running PHP 5.2+, try adding this to the end of your config.php:
date_default_timezone_set('GMT');

I added that piece of code and it seems to have fixed it. Thank you very much! :)

Jim