When I post to my forum, the timestamp on the post are 7 hours in the past, wordpress has the correct timezone with is us pacific time.

I don’ t see anywhere I can set timezone in bbpress

[@gautamgupta Participant 13 years, 4 months ago]

The bbPress plugin should use the WordPress timezone. Can you post a link to your forums or any other additional details?

[@ebharding Participant 13 years, 4 months ago]

the forums are on non public site.

When I post, the time stamp is correct, but the Freshness time for the post says 7 hours.

thanks

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 4 months ago]

Sounds like a GMT issue. Will look into it.

[@ebharding Participant 13 years, 2 months ago]

Any progress on this?

Here is a screen shot of the dashboard showing the issue.

my timezone is “Pacific” and that is set in the wordpress settings.

system clock says 12:21,

post time stamp is 12:06 and

the freshness say 7 hours ago.

http://www.westsac.com/bbpress_timezone_bug.png.

The forums are going live next week and I am in the process of removing the “Freshness” code from the public views.

[@spaghetti Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

Why would you remove the “Freshness” code from public views by the way?

[@ebharding Participant 13 years, 2 months ago]

Because the information it was displaying was wrong.

[@ebharding Participant 13 years, 2 months ago]

discovered something interesting

I have http://www.westsac.com and http://www.westsac.com/news-ledger. This is a Multisite installation. the BBPress forum are activated on both (network activated) site but we are only using them on the main site

http://www.westsac.com/forums/ here the freshness is off by -7 hours on the other site

http://www.westsac.com/news-ledger/forums/forum/top-level/ the freshness is correct.

I scanned the options table of both sites and discovered that the got_offest was different, main site was set to -7 the other site was blank.

So I change the gmt_offset to blank on the main site, but that did not make a difference.

Does something have to happen for this change to take effect?

[@noerman Member 13 years, 2 months ago]

AFAIK when posts (or pages, forums, topics or replies) were saved on specific timezone, and the you change to another timezone your post date won’t be changed.

Those new timezone only affect the next posts, and your previous post will have same post date. So when you visit your forum, it still showing old date.

[@ebharding Participant 13 years, 2 months ago]

Yes, I know, new posts still have the wrong timezone

[@woodwardmatt Member 13 years, 1 month ago]

@ebharding – I spotted the same issue also. The site I have been working on is currently using an offset of +9.5hrs so the “Freshness” column is always incorrect. The diff function for “Freshness” must not be taking the GMT offset into account.

[@ebharding Participant 13 years, 1 month ago]

I fixed the problem by adding the diff back in. Interesting that it only happens to some sites.

[@woodwardmatt Member 13 years, 1 month ago]

Ahh ok, do you remember any specifics (e.g. files used / changed) – I’ve only really analysed at a high-level so far.

@JJJ – Has this issue had any air time as yet?

[@ebharding Participant 13 years, 1 month ago]

This was my solution

I edited line 178 in my /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-common-functions.php

function bbp_get_time_since( $time ) {

return apply_filters( ‘bbp_get_time_since’, human_time_diff( $time – 25200, current_time( ‘timestamp’ ) ), $time );

}

In my case (Pacific Time) I needed to subtract 7 hours which translated to 25200 seconds.

[@karlwithak23 Member 13 years, 1 month ago]

@ebharding – Thanks so much for posting that. I was going nuts trying to get this issue fixed. Seems like kind of an odd bug – hopefully something that will be fixed in the next update.

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 1 month ago]

@ebharding – Rather than hardcode the time difference, can you change:

function bbp_convert_date( $time, $d = 'U', $translate = false ) {

to

function bbp_convert_date( $time, $d = 'G', $translate = false ) {

and report back results?

[@ebharding Participant 13 years, 1 month ago]

I made the suggested change and that seemed to fix the problem.

thanks!

[@johnjamesjacoby Keymaster 13 years, 1 month ago]

Can you confirm that no other timestamps are adversely affected? That function is used rather extensively through-out bbPress, so it’s possible it might skew the math of other times in the other direction.

[@ebharding Participant 13 years, 1 month ago]

There is not a lot of traffic on the forum yet, but it would appear that everything is ok.

[@ahkar83 Member 12 years, 6 months ago]

@johnjamesjacoby … Hello,

I did

function bbp_convert_date( $time, $d = ‘U’, $translate = false ) {

to

function bbp_convert_date( $time, $d = ‘G’, $translate = false ) {

but I see no change.

I’m on PST timezone..

thanks!

[@ahkar83 Member 12 years, 6 months ago]

@johnjamesjacoby

in this file::

my /wp-content/plugins/bbpress/bbp-includes/bbp-common-functions.php

thanks for your help!

[@lswhere Participant 4 years ago]

*** FIXED***(kind of)*** I know it’s been 8 years since this was active but I’ve been banging my head for DAYS trying to figure this out and HERE’S THE FIX!!!

Download the plugin BBP Style Pack https://wordpress.org/plugins/bbp-style-pack/ after activation go into style pack settings open the “Freshness Display” tab – check the ‘activate freshness display’ box and then change the freshness format from default to display the date on the last post. Save changes and that’s it. If you leave the setting on default it will not work. You will have the same problems. It needs to be changed to ‘show date of last post.

I HOPE YOU CAN RELAX NOW