Hello,

I have my WordPress site set to my timezone, but the times shown in the Dashboard Box “Latest Forum Topics and Replies” shows posts with times from a different timezone.

ie I just posted something and looked at the dashboard box and it says “posted 9 hours ago”… (btw my timezone is UTC+9, so it seems the dashboard box is assuming UTC…

By the way, on the forum itself it shows the correct time of posting. So, it only seems to be the dashboard box.

[@kojak711 Participant 2 years, 11 months ago]

I have the exact same issue as this.

My time zone is GMT-3:30.

Front end: The topic list shows ‘Last Post’ as 3 hours and 30 minutes ago but when you click the topic the latest reply time (the most recent reply) is correct.

Back end: under Forums it shows the ‘Last Post’ as 3 hours, 30 minutes ago when I just added a test post. However, under ‘Replies’ it shows the correct time in the ‘Created’ column.

Is there a fix available for this? I’ve tried everything I’ve found in these forums and nothing has worked.

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 11 months ago]

Back end: under Forums it shows the ‘Last Post’ as 3 hours, 30 minutes ago when I just added a test post. However, under ‘Replies’ it shows the correct time in the ‘Created’ column.

Can you test this with a page or post – bbpress is just a custom post type and uses wordpress code for the backend

[@kojak711 Participant 2 years, 11 months ago]

Hmm…that’s weird. You’re right…when I add a regular WP post is shows the wrong ‘Published on: ” time but on the front end when displaying the post’s time is shows the correct time.

I’ll have to do some more troubleshooting.

Thanks for the quick reply!

[@kojak711 Participant 2 years, 11 months ago]

Found it! date_default_timezone_set was being used in the theme’s functions.php file. I removed it and this fixed the issue.

Thanks again for pointing me in that direction. 🙂

[@robin-w Moderator 2 years, 11 months ago]

Great – glad you are fixed 🙂