Minute Shift (for servers with slightly wrong times)

This hack shifts all the dates that the forum displays (at least all those generated by vbdate(), which should be all of them) by a given number of minutes. For example, if you are on a shared server and the server's time is three minutes too fast, you can compensate using this hack by making all times account for the three minute shift.

Designed with 2.3.0 RC3 but should in practically any 2.2.x version of vB.

[Brolly]

Look slightly above there, should see the code:

PHP Code:

function vbdatenoty($format,$timestamp) {
  global $bbuserinfo, $timeoffset;

  return date($format,$timestamp+($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600); 


I've actually had a problem with the hack. I had the same problem as Sonikku, and I edited the code I just put instead of the code in the txt. I was assuming it would still work much the same. But it's not having an effect on the server time. It seems to push the time forward, but not backwards. Anyone else having this problem?

[Oblivion Knight]

It's because you have the yesterday/today timestamp (or at least it looks as though you have with the code you have provided).

Try replacing this:

function vbdate($format,$timestamp) { 
  global $bbuserinfo,$timeoffset, $dateformat, $timeformat; 

  if ($dateformat==$format) { 
    $todaystamp=mktime(); 
    $todaydate=date($format,$todaystamp+($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600); 
    $yestdate=date($format,(($todaystamp-86400)+($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600)); 
    $date = date($format,$timestamp+($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600);

With this:

function vbdate($format,$timestamp) { 
  global $bbuserinfo,$timeoffset, $minuteshift, $dateformat, $timeformat; 

  if ($dateformat==$format) { 
    $todaystamp=mktime(); 
    $todaydate=date($format,($todaystamp+($minuteshift * 60))+($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600); 
    $yestdate=date($format,((($todaystamp-86400)+($minuteshift * 60))+($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600)); 
    $date = date($format,($timestamp+($minuteshift * 60))+($bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset']-$timeoffset)*3600);

It's untested, but I think it should work..

[Brolly]

Sorry, it doesn't