[wp-docs] Network Admin: Timezone Setting

Mika A. Epstein ipstenu at ipstenu.org
Mon Nov 7 19:39:24 UTC 2011


I think it's just a question of 'Where' at this point ;)

On http://codex.wordpress.org/Network_Admin under settings we have

"The Network Admin Settings Screen is where a network admin sets and 
changes settings for the network as a whole. The first site is the main 
site in the network and network settings are pulled from that original 
site’s options."

On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 14:32:34 -0400, Andrea Rennick wrote:
> Yep. :)
>
> a.
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Lorelle on WordPress  wrote:
>
>> I think this deserves an addition to the Codex guidelines for
> future
>> reference, don't you?
>>
>> Lorelle
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
>>
>>> Great! "Primary" it is, then.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Chip
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Doug wrote:
>>>
>>>> The My Sites dashboard screen refers to the "Primary Site"; we
>>>> also use Primary in the Help Tabs.
>>>>
>>>> Dougwrites
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 26, 2011, at 4:19 PM, Otto wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Could use a lot of terms, don't think there is an official
>>>> one. "Root"
>>>> > site. "Main" site. "First" site. Etc.
>>>> >
>>>> > -Otto
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:
>>>> >> I would like to add a clarification note to the Network
>>>> Admin Codex page,
>>>> >> but would like some direction before doing so:
>>>> >> http://codex.wordpress.org/Network_Admin [3]
>>>> >> Recently, while updating to 3.3-nightly, I noticed that the
>>>> "last checked"
>>>> >> timestamp was not correct; it was displaying in (what I
>>>> assumed to be) GMT.
>>>> >> When I searched for the appropriate network setting to
>>>> change to the correct
>>>> >> timezone, I discovered that no such setting existed in the
>>>> Network Settings.
>>>> >> Thanks to help from Mika and Andrea, I learned that the
>>>> Network Admin
>>>> >> observes the timezone setting of the "main" Network site,
>>>> and to change the
>>>> >> Network Admin timezone, one must change the timezone
>>>> setting of the "main"
>>>> >> Network site
>>>> >> I figure that I'm not the only person to be confused by
>>>> this behavior, and
>>>> >> so I would like to add an appropriate note, perhaps here:
>>>> >> http://codex.wordpress.org/Network_Admin#Settings [4]
>>>> >> Any guidance on appropriateness, location, or content - or
>>>> also,
>>>> >> terminology? Is "main" Network site the correct term for
>>>> the, erm, main
>>>> >> Network site?
>>>> >> Thanks in advance,
>>>> >> Chip
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> [1] mailto:otto at ottodestruct.com
> [2] mailto:chip at chipbennett.net
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> [4] http://codex.wordpress.org/Network_Admin#Settings
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