Local time and date in post, pm, usernotes and profile v1.5

Local time and date in post, pm, usernotes and profile
Version 1.5
(By Boofo)

This hack will add the local time and date of users in the posts, pms, usernotes and profile. That way you will know what the time and date is where they are located. I use this on my site so I will have an idea if it is the middle of the night, where they are at, or daytime. With your users living in all corners of the globe, this hack is a nice gauge of the different time zones without having to figure out each one in your head.

Thanks goes out to Link14716 for pointing me in the right direction for the pm time and helping to verify the code. And everyone who chipped in at vbulletin.com to help me figure out vB3's new ways of doing things. A special thanks goes out to Chen Avinadav for making the first local time hack for vB2 and allowing me to release it for vB3.

Version Information:
Version 1.0 --Initial release
Version 1.1 --Fixed bug where the User CP DST setting was not being accounted for. Thanks goes out to squall14716 for the fix.
Version 1.2 --Fixed bug where a few people's time was off by an hour or two in the showthread, but right on target everywhere else. Moved the code from the showthread.php into the functions_showthread.php, where it should have been in the first place. Thanks Natch, for all of your hard work in helping me track this down.
Version 1.3 --Fixed bug where local time and date was not showing up in a member's profile when the "Additional Information" box was empty due to them not entering any personal information in their profile. It would only show an N/A.
Version 1.4 --Added ability to have the local time and date to also show up in the showpost.
Version 1.5 --Fixed last known bug where the User CP DST setting was not being automatically accounted for when the DST changed. The Version 1.1 fix seemed to be only temporary and not a total solution. This should take care of it.


Files to edit: 4
functions_showthread.php
private.php
usernote.php
member.php

Templates to edit: 3
postbit
postbit_legacy
memberinfo


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[Boofo]

Link is right. All you should need to do is make suure the server is set to the correct timezone and see that DST is set to NO (for now) in the Admin CP. After that it should all be automatic, I think.

Natch, is your linear local time working all right? It was when we fixed it. Is it still ok?

[Natch]

Originally Posted by Boofo

Link is right. All you should need to do is make suure the server is set to the correct timezone and see that DST is set to NO (for now) in the Admin CP. After that it should all be automatic, I think.

Natch, is your linear local time working all right? It was when we fixed it. Is it still ok?

Sorry mate - but no.

Since the last edit, all of Linear, Hybrid and Threaded modes show the localtime at -1 of what it should be, but in a PM from me, the localtime is accurate.

[Boofo]

Take the last edit out then until I can look at it more closely and try to figure out what is going wrong. Let me know if the linear time is showing right again after you remove the last code, will you, please?

And how is it in the profile?

[Natch]

localtime is correct in Profile:

After removing that code, the localtime is still one hour early in showthread...

This is what I still have left in showthread.php - before

PHP Code:

        $post['musername'] = fetch_musername($post);
        $post['islastshown'] = ($post['postid'] == $lastpostid);
        $post['attachments'] = &$postattach["$post[postid]"]; 


I have

PHP Code:

// Local Date and Time in Post
        $post['tzoffset'] = $post['timezoneoffset'];
        if ($post['dstonoff'])
        {
            // DST is on, add an hour
            $post['tzoffset']++;
        }
        $post['localtime'] = date($vboptions['timeformat'], TIMENOW+($post['tzoffset']-$vboptions['timeoffset'])*3600);
        $post['localdate'] = date($vboptions['dateformat'], TIMENOW+($post['tzoffset']-$vboptions['timeoffset'])*3600);
// Local Date and Time in Post 


[Boofo]

Didn't you say yesterday that when we added the DST code, that it fixed it for you? And everything was showing the right time? If that was the case, then something happened somewhere when we added the extra code. But that should have fixed itself when we removed it. I'm at a total loss here. This has me totally stumped. On my site the time shows correct in all of the thread display modes, as well as everywhere else. I have had a few people test it on their sites, and they are reporting no time loss or gain.Please double-check everything and see if maybe you left something out somewhere. I don't know how to fix it when it works everywhere else. Anyone else have any ideas?

[Natch]

Sorry about this pal ... I'll look over this thread again and revert all the files back to prior to this hack - then work it thru ...

[Boofo]

You don't need to apologize. I just want to help you get it working like it does for me and a lot of others.

The file in the first post has all of the updates that you should need. It was updated after the DST code. I didn't add the hybred or threaded mode to that one yet until we can figure out what is going on.

[Natch]

The only thing I can think of is that maybe the Auto-detection of [dstonoff] is not working properly in this file for some reason ...

I'm gonna do a Beyond Compare with the original vb# RC3 showthread ...

I'll let u know what I find out ...

[Boofo]

Please keep me posted. It seems to work fine for me. Maybe something is different in your file.

[Link14716]

If everyone is having all of these problems, I'm to the point where I'm about to suggest making a damned duplicate of vbdate that uses $post['timezoneoffset'] or whatever instead of $bbuserinfo['timezoneoffset'].