[wp-forums] Date/Time Settings in Admin Panel

[Mar Ventus]

>
> This mailing list isn't really the place to get into a discussion about
> this.

Agreed. That's why I asked you if you thought it was worth it to open a
Trac ticket about it.
I think I'm gonna go ahead and look into this a little deeper and post on
Trac if I find a viable alternative.
Thanks!

Marventus


On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Michael Atkins <michael at cubecolour.co.uk>wrote:

> Not changing times on existing posts makes perfect sense to me - if the
> time was updated, some posts will get their posted date changed which will
> cause 404s if a date-based permalink is used.
>
> I don't think this is a bug or issue so there's nothing to fix (IMHO).
>
> This mailing list isn't really the place to get into a discussion about
> this. The requests & feedback forum would probably be a more suitable
> platform for discussing it.
>
> Michael
>
> On 7 Aug 2012, at 19:14, Mar Ventus wrote:
>
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > I thought that could be the case because of the way date strings are
> stored
> > in the DB.
> > Personally, I think most users would appreciate not having to reset their
> > post dates after changing their time zone settings, especially on blogs
> > containing thousands of posts and comments.
> > Do you think it would make sense to open a Trac ticket (feature request)
> > about this?
> > LMK. Thanks!
> >
> > Marventus
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Michael Atkins <michael at cubecolour.co.uk
> >wrote:
> >
> >> This is normal. Anything already published will not change. The new time
> >> will only apply to posts you make after changing the timezone.
> >>
> >> Michael
> >> @cubecolour.co.uk
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7 Aug 2012, at 18:40, Mar Ventus wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi everybody.
> >>> I've recently started contributing in the relatively new Spanish
> forums,
> >>> and came upon this thread:
> >>>
> >>
> http://es.forums.wordpress.org/topic/problema-con-fecha-de-plantillazona-horaria
> >> ?<
> >>
> http://es.forums.wordpress.org/topic/problema-con-fecha-de-plantillazona-horaria?replies=5
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Basically, the user is having trouble with his/her Date settings. While
> >>> trying to help him, I did the following experiment in my test site
> >> running
> >>> TwentyEleven:
> >>> *1.* Set the Date/Time options to UTC+0 and created some posts and
> >> comments;
> >>> *2.* Changed the settings toa different time zone and created some
> >>> additional ones;
> >>> *Result:* times in step 1 did not get updated to the new settings, and
> >>> still showed the time in UTC+0.
> >>>
> >>> I told the OP that I was gonna check Trac see if any tickets were
> created
> >>> for this, but couldn't find any. Does anyone know anything about this?
> >>> Thanks!
> >>>
> >>> Marventus
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