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#28366 Timestamp inconsistenteny

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Latest post by nicholas on Sunday, 03 September 2017 11:09 CDT

Sunday, 03 September 2017 05:36 CDT

Ch3vr0n
It's been a while but one of my sites just hit an ip with an auto-ban again (yay? :p) The security exception timestamp in the control pannel is 2017-09-03 08:22:54 CEST however in the automatic mail sent it's listed as Timestamp: 2017-09-03 06:22:54 GMT

which is the exact same issue as ticket "#21163 – Wrong time" (2 hours behind). Server time is correctly configured to brussels time. Is there any way i can tell admin tools to use CEST instead of GMT or automatically correct the difference?

It seems a bit weird to use the correct timestamp on the website part and an (incorrect) other one in the e-mails. This is especially confusing if abuse departments ask for the timestamp of the intrusion.

Thanks for any guidance

Sunday, 03 September 2017 11:09 CDT

nicholas
Joomla! saves timezone settings in user accounts.

When you view the control panel you are logged in. Joomla! knows which timezone you have selected and tells us. Therefore we can show you date/time in your preferred timezone.

When the email is sent we have either a random user logged in or nobody logged in (guest). Therefore we cannot know which timezone to use in the emails. Therefore we use GMT.

No, you cannot force a timezone. However, you can tell your people to look at the time the email was sent if adding a fixed amount of time to the value printed in GMT is so difficult for them.

Finally note that server timezone and your timezone are NOT the same!!! It is possible for a Cypriot business (UTC+2) to be hosted with a British host (UTC+0) with servers in Amsterdam (UTC+1). The correct server timezone is Europe/Amsterdam (UTC+1), NOT Asia/Nicosia (UTC+2). So telling me that your server timezone is "correctly" set to Brussels makes me wonder if you really have a data centre in Belgium or you just got lucky because Belgium is in the same TZ as Amsterdam and Frankfurt where most of Europe's datacentres for commercial hosting are located in ;)

In any case, there is nothing strange and nothing you can do.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

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