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[hjalte1983 Friend hjalte1983Join date: September 2012Posts: 328Downloads:7Uploads:105 Thanks: 101 Thanked: 9 times in 1 posts]

#194805

The Countdown seems to not working correctly.

I set the joomla servertime to Chigago, and my mate in Chicago sets the timer to feb 22nd 4PM (CST).

For me its 1 hour off, but a guy in tokyo says the timer is way off, and some other people in the states also say the timer is off.

I’m doing something wrong ?

When i go backend and look what my mate set it to it says 2014-02-22 08:00:00 which making no sense

Regards

[Manos Moderator ManosJoin date: February 2014Posts: 2806Downloads:46Uploads:56 Thanks: 200 Thanked: 633 times in 576 posts]

#522810

Hi,

Check your server error_log to see if there’s something there related to “time” in php

[Thanh Nguyen Viet Friend Thanh Nguyen VietJoin date: September 2014Posts: 1461Downloads:0Uploads:44 Thanked: 258 times in 217 posts]

#522998

@hjalte1983,

Please PM me administrator credentials of your site, I need to check your configuration so that I can give you better assistance.

[Thanh Nguyen Viet Friend Thanh Nguyen VietJoin date: September 2014Posts: 1461Downloads:0Uploads:44 Thanked: 258 times in 217 posts]

#523111

@hjalte1983,

I have checked your site, and encounter some issues with date convertion between UTC time and server timezone as well as user local timezone.

I will report this issue to dev team for troubleshooting. Hope for your patience on this.

[k2joom Friend k2joomJoin date: March 2010Posts: 62Downloads:133Uploads:4 Thanks: 7 Thanked: 15 times in 2 posts]

#557572

I have similar issue.

Host server is USA based, we are UK based, so we set the end time for UK but we are 5 hours out of sync.

I have created a module override and plan to try an change the code to GMT.
Original code is: [PHP]//Convert to UTC time
$serverTZ = new DateTimeZone(date(‘e’));
$utcTZ = new DateTimeZone(‘UTC’);
$date = new DateTime($params->get(‘countdown_end_date’), $serverTZ);
$date->setTimezone($utcTZ);[/PHP]

I am trying to find out how to change this for GMT, I have changed utc to gmt and UTC to GMT but that did not work.
In the end, i used this site, to calculate the difference then change my end time instead, dirty but worked.
http://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadd.html

<em>@Dead Code 411829 wrote:</em><blockquote>@hjalte1983,

I have checked your site, and encounter some issues with date convertion between UTC time and server timezone as well as user local timezone.

I will report this issue to dev team for troubleshooting. Hope for your patience on this.</blockquote>

[gsaprchair Friend gsaprchairJoin date: October 2014Posts: 4Downloads:0Uploads:0]

#563003

Interesting that you guys can see the countdown timer. I’ve got my timer activated according to the admin panel but the bar shows up but no countdown timer at all, does not appear.

[Adam M Moderator Adam MJoin date: May 2014Posts: 5159Downloads:33Uploads:66 Thanks: 95 Thanked: 1271 times in 1235 posts]

#563226

Hi @gsaprchair,

Could you please provide your site url and temporary back-end account via private reply so I can investigate the problem for you ?

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