Category: Zone BBS Suggestions and Feedback
I think there should be an option in the 'my account' section of the website which allows you to change the timezone. All times are shown in US times and not all members of the site are from the US. It would make it easier for non-US members if times were shown in their own timezone.
According to a post from the admins in another topic, having this sort of system that changed all times displayed on the site would be a "coding nightmare" because of the way the site is written and that the version of PHP used is now out of date (at least that's what i understand anyway). The only thing that the admins may be able to do is add a global clock to the /time qn command. It's a shame because I would like this feature, but i've gotten kinda used to converting from eastern to GMT (+5 hours). The only thing that still confuses me is DST changes, but i'll soon work that out.
When i was playing sports challenge, i finally worked out that you add 5 hours so like you, I can manage.
I think this feature is not something the site should do, but they could have user choose his/her timezone as part of the user's profile, store it, or the difference between EST and the user's time zone in a table on the server and convert the times by adding or subtracting when the page is refreshed to the users time zone. It requires extra datatable and some coding, but it could certainly be done.
The other way would be to go client side scripting for real time and use Javascript, bu8t it still leaves the problem of displaying time when a certain post was posted.
So adding the TimeZone field to user table, defaulting it to EST, or PST or whatever the site uses could be s fairly simple solution to this problem, though I don't see the need for such a solution.
It would be a coding nightmare...
For posts, the site could automatically convert via the timezone the user picked. Is that doable?
According to the admins, it's not, but according to post 4, it is''' interesting!
I think that would be nice to have your own timezone, also if you could choose between a 24-hour clock and a 12-hour clock.