Help With WordPress Timestamps

December 19th, 2006 • Related • Filed Under

Filed Under: Blogging • Internet News

Tags: Digg, Modding, Problogging, Wordpress

I just made a post on Scoble’s site to try and work out when the current Digg outage following the Digg upgrade started. It made me realise that WordPress.com timestamps are all displayed in the blog owners local timezone.

I hope that’s not the case on WordPress hosted blogs, as it will make it hard for readers from different timezones to work out how long it’s been since a post was made or a comment was left, as they won’t know what timezone is being used as the base.

Can you help me check whether this is the case on Wordpress hosted blogs please, by leaving a comment and then checking what timestamp is displayed, to see if it matches your local time. If the timestamps don’t match then I’m going to see if I can find a way to fix them.
Thanks.

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Everton is based in London and has worked in the internet and mobile space for over ten years now, and before that worked in corporate strategy and consulting. He has a degree in Economics from Cambridge University, and currently runs the Portal and online operations for one of the largest ISPs in the UK. He also writes for Windows 7 News.

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1. #1
   

   Comment by Jez on 19 December 2006:

   well.. its 16:35 GMT or thereabouts right now.. as I am sure you are fully aware!
2. #2
   

   Comment by Ajay D'Souza on 19 December 2006:

   WordPress hosted blogs also have the option of setting their own timestamps.

   Its 1.39am (Dec 20) here as per IST, same as what my blog is set at.
3. #3
   

   Comment by Everton Blair on 19 December 2006:

   but is there a way for the time to always match the readers timezone? Can registered users set their own timezone?
4. #4
   

   Comment by Ajay on 19 December 2006:

   As of now registered users cannot set their time zones.

   The only way for them to know is if you tell them the timezone. I’m going to modify all my templates to set the timezone in the post info, so that users know my blog is set as per IST.

   You seem to have brought up an important feature that WordPress lacks.
5. #5
   

   Comment by Everton Blair on 19 December 2006:

   I’m going to do the same.

   I’m guessing IST is Indian Standard Time? Did you know that to switch between GMT and IST you only have to turn your watch upside down? well, in the summer anyway
6. #6
   

   Comment by Ajay on 19 December 2006:

   hehe, yes I know that. Do you have daylight savings? We don’t have it out here.

   Guess you folks learn that about IST and we learn it about GMT, though I’m sure a lot still don’t know it!

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