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--- tips:timezone [2014-08-08 04:23] – [Edit DokuWiki Conf] 167.88.103.34
+++ tips:timezone [2022-06-22 04:02] (current) – clarify that local.protected.php may need to be created, as I had to do for my wiki 96.241.231.169
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 ===== Edit DokuWiki Conf =====
-To set the correct timezone edit ''conf/local.protected.php'' and add the line:
+To set the correct timezone, edit ''conf/local.protected.php'' or create it if it does not already exist. Add the line:
 <code php>
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 </code>
-Make sure to put the modification after "<?php" if it was already there or just add it like this:
+The modification goes after "<?php"; if it is not already there, it can be added as follows
-<code php>
+<code php conf/local.protected.php>
 <?php
 date_default_timezone_set("GMT");
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 Note that if you modify ''conf/local.php'', your changes will be lost when you configure via the GUI.
-For changing time zone on linux shared hosting - dokuWiki/inc/init.php - Line no 88 - Set you own time zone.
+**ATTENTION: This may cause the RSS feed to crash, in which it will flood updates every <set option> minutes for X hours in a row by a time shift of X hours east, and updates will not be considered fresh immediately after a posting by a time shift west**
-e.g. <code php>date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');</code> for india. You may also try double quotes, if single quotes give a PHP warning...
+For changing time zone on linux shared hosting - dokuWiki/inc/init.php - search "date_default_timezone_set" (line #93 for Greebo build) - Set you own time zone.
+e.g. ''%%date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');%%'' for india. You may also try double quotes, if single quotes give a PHP warning...
+**ATTENTION: This may cause the RSS feed to crash, in which it will flood updates every <set option> minutes for X hours in a row by a time shift of X hours east, and updates will not be considered fresh immediately after a posting by a time shift west**
 ===== Edit PHP Conf =====
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 Uncomment the '';date.timezone = '' line and add your timezone.
-  date.timezone = America/Chicago
+<code ini>
+date.timezone = America/Chicago
+</code>
 Then reload PHP to make the change take effect.
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 The PHP site lists the [[http://us.php.net/timezones|available timezones]].
-For example, if you live in Chicago, replace GMT with "America/Chicago."
+For example, if you live in Chicago, replace GMT with "America/Chicago".
+===== Timezones for users =====
+I use this for my UTS+10 timezone (look at "shift" var) and posted a link on my site for readers
+https://github.com/Comicslate/Userscripts/blob/master/Comicslate/TimeFix.user.js
+It would be nice to make a plugin to request a timezone in a user profile and store this parameter in a cookie