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I have a fresh vB3.8.2 with no other mods but this and two themes, one implements the <ad/> tag and another doesn't. The board is natively set to UTC+10 and I have added the time zone to the time stamps when viewing the only post on the board in each style it can be seen that when the ads are on the time stamp is UTC and when off reverts to board time. Board time is correctly reported at the bottom of the main page for the user in either case.
I continue to drill down on this.

I am certain it has something to do with the local mode bug in openX but this still shouldn't throw vB - there must be some way of protecting the local variables in vB so that they are not zapped with the call out to openX by a simple plugin.

By the By, something to be aware of is that if you use the disable hooks in config.php to check your board functionality with the way that this plugin works the <ad/> tags break the templates calling for view_ad which (with hooks disabled) is an undefined function - yielding thus a fatal error.

Fatal error: Call to undefined function view_ad() in /var/www/archq/forums/global.php(614) : eval()'d code on line 1

This applies to disabling the plugin/hook system via the ACP or as below in config.php:

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

this should be worked around with this mod but that is a secondary concern! Just be aware of it if using since it is sometimes necessary to disable the plugin system that way when problems are being worked on with vB.com folks.