[Kojichan]

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Exception’ with message ‘DateTimeZone::__construct() [datetimezone.–construct]: Unknown or bad timezone (UTC-7)’ in /home/neosmcn1/public_html/hsti/forum/bb-admin/options-general.php:180 Stack trace: #0 /home/neosmcn1/public_html/hsti/forum/bb-admin/options-general.php(180): DateTimeZone->__construct(‘UTC-7’) #1 {main} thrown in /home/neosmcn1/public_html/hsti/forum/bb-admin/options-general.php on line 180

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Here’s a random question, does BBPress support timezone differences?

I see the option in the options-general.php in bb-admin, but, I’m beginning to wonder if it’s implemented yet. Doesn’t’ appear to be, yet. As I can change the time-zone willy-nilly, and the times listed below are not affected. (IE, I’m GMT-7, so I have selected Edmonton as the closets city to me. At the time of writing, it is 12:43p here, and my forum says it’s 6:43p. Mind you, it ALSO says that UTC ALSO is 6:43p. … whut??)

Moreover, the options drop-down seems to be populating false timezones toward the end, the UTCxxxx portions. UTC itself is fine under ETC, but under the “Manual offsets” there are a set of UTC-7, UTC+7, UTC-1, etc. However, in PHP, DateTimeZone does not recognize the UTC-xx or UTC+xx values. They are incorrect. Shouldn’t they be GMT-xxx or GMT+xxx?

I’ve tried looking in the code for some answers, (bb-includes/backpress/functions.core.php and bb-admin/options-general.php ) but neither of them seem to be shedding any light…

[chrishajer]

Interesting – this was a year ago:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/unknown-or-bad-timezone-etcutc

[chrishajer]

Seems WordPress had the same trouble at some point:

https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-unknown-or-bad-timezone

[fostertime]

Any idea how to remedy this issue?

I have tried everything and cannot get passed this. Having the same exact problem after changing the TZ to UTC-5.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

FYI, using the latest version 1.0.2

[astrolosophy]

Is this issue still unresolved? I just went through all the steps to install 1.03 and I didn’t do anything other than try to set the time zone to -8 hours and now I can no longer get into general settings. Any suggestions? I would like to replace the options-general file but I fear that it may render the whole installation useless. That is if this little bug has not already done that for me.

Please Help!

[primehifi]

I wasn’t so concerned about fixing it as I was about getting access to to the general settings again.

here’s the fix on this website I found, http://tadej.eu/wordpress-timezone-exception-fix-hack