[wp-forums] Network Admin: Settings

[Chip Bennett]

So sorry; I meant to send this to wp-docs...

Chip

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Chip Bennett <chip at chipbennett.net> 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
>
> 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
>
> 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
>