[melodies]

On my forum, the timestamp on the posts are 7 hours in the past.
When a new post is made, it starts at “7 hours ago” rather than “just now,” “1 minute ago,” etc.

The general time is set correctly in the WP > Dashboard > settings and all other timestamps displayed across the site are accurate (messages, notifications, etc). Only notifications relating to bbPress are off by 7 hours.

This same issue can be found in an old thread post (Link below):

The time zone is off by 7 hours in my bbpress plugin forums

However, the solution in that post is outdated, since the code layout in has changed, and “line 178 in /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-common-functions.php” no longer exists for manual alteration.

Can you please tell me which file I can edit in bbPress to manually subtract 7 hours from the freshness output timestamp of all future forum posts?

Thank you.

[Robin W]

suggest you try this in your functions file

add_filter ('bbp_convert_date', 'rew_convert_date', 10 , 3 ) ;

function rew_convert_date ($time, $d, $translate) {
$d = 'G' ;
$time = mysql2date( $d, $time, $translate );
return apply_filters( 'rew_convert_date', $time, $d, $translate );
}

may or may not work !

[melodies]

Hi @robin-w,

Thank you for the suggestion.
I tried it in my theme’s function.php file, but it did not work.

Was that the correct functions file to try it in?

[Robin W]

correct place – I was guessing at whether the code will work, I’ll take a further look at it if I get a chance

[melodies]

Hi @robin-w,

Alright, thanks. I will appreciate it.

[melodies]

I know that changes made directly inside the bbPress plugin will be overridden during the next update, but I’m just wondering if in the meantime there is a line of code I could change within the plugin as a temporary fix?

…Similar to the way the person who was experiencing the same problem in the link provided above did, stating: “In my case (Pacific Time) I needed to subtract 7 hours which translated to 25200 seconds” and made the temporary fix directly inside his install of the plugin.

[melodies]

Hi @robin-w,

Did you get a chance to take a further look at this?

I noticed that if I change the “Dashboard > Settings > General” timezone to UTC+0, bbPress starts displaying the correct time freshness, but all other timestamps across the website become incorrect, because UTC+0 is the incorrect timezone for the website’s location. It should be UTC-7.

Please tell me how I can apply the “UTC+0” timezone exclusively to bbPress alone, so that it starts displaying the correct freshness?

[Robin W]

sorry, I’m buried in paid work at the moment – I’d love to find some time to work on this, but none available!