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10-23-2008, 01:30 PM
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Daylight Savings Change
Many countries are transitioning from their Daylight Savings period for 2008. This often causes confusion with end-users on your forums because their time zone as reflected by vBulletin will change when they view the forums. The key to this is to show them that the time is correct and that at actual difference from GMT doesn't change.
The confusion is cause by how Daylight Savings is applied. When Daylight Savings goes into affect in the Spring, the clocks are moved ahead one hour. This effectively changes your timezone by one hour as well. GMT will always remain the zero meridian and doesn't change because of political time manipulations like this. In the fall, you move the clock back one hour or effectively gain an hour for timezone purposes. This reversal puts the clocks back on Standard Time. Standard Timezones are calculated for periods where Daylight Savings Time is not in affect or the winter months. Also please note that Southern Hemisphere countries are the opposite of their Northern Hemisphere counterparts. While most of the world's population is leaving Daylight Savings Time this time of the year, those in the Southern Hemisphere are just entering it. Some examples: Los Angelos - Standard Time is GMT -8. Daylight Savings is GMT -7. New York - Standard Time is GMT -5. Daylight Savings is GMT-4. London - Standard Time is GMT. Daylight Savings is GMT +1. Sydney - Standard Time is GMT +10, Daylight Savings is GMT +11. Dubai - Standard Time is GMT +4, Daylight Savings is not Observed. To see which countries observe Daylight Savings Time and when the times switch for this season please look at: http://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst2008.html More... 
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#2
10-23-2008, 01:36 PM
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Hum, and why this is an announcement ?!
maybe in the tutorials, but vBulletin is not announcing anything new here, someone take too much coffee...
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#3
10-23-2008, 01:37 PM
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Jelsoft interacts with their customers
 Way to go Jelsoft :lol:[high]* Lizard King comments when no admin is online[/high]
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#4
10-23-2008, 02:30 PM
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I think it's great of them to keep is up-to-date. There's some interesting reading here...
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#5
10-23-2008, 02:35 PM
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Yes, for someone who has this covered, it may be boring. For me, thanks. It sparks a question. Do I have to manually change DST on/off for the default time zone (in vB date/time options)?
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#6
10-23-2008, 03:02 PM
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if you do not know it yet, you really need to revise your AdminCP... because it is well documented already.
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#7
10-23-2008, 05:05 PM
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Nexia, it may be nothing new for you, but it causes major problems to some users! Every year around this time, and again around April or so when DST goes into affect, there are tons of threads about this exact issue. I'm sure vB staff just gets sick of always answering the same questions over and over again.
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#8
10-24-2008, 01:24 AM
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I posted it as an announcement to make sure that it was seen by the most people and to give support staff a reference to link to when the questions do come up. Posting it in some buried tutorial forum wouldn't have the desired impact of getting the information out.
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#9
10-24-2008, 03:32 AM
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Quote:
Jelsoft runs the time clocks now 
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