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12:36 am
January 15, 2009

zip2play

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How do I get the correct time in EST (Eastern Standard Time…U.S.) instead of what I presume is Greenwich Mean Time, or 5 hours ahead of me.

11:47 am
January 15, 2009

GoutPal

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The setting is forum-wide, so you cannot change it on an individual basis, as far as I am aware.

Maybe it would be better changed to something more useful to the majority of members.

What do the rest of my visitors want?

Please add your thoughts by replying to this post.

Maybe we should pester the powers that be for gout time – that time we all know, when you wake up in the middle of the night with your legs on fire

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1:54 pm
January 15, 2009

zip2play

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Mr. Pal,

Most bulletin boards give each member the ability to set his time zone. Each person will then see ALL the other posters time referred to his OWN area's time zone. Then no consensus is needed because everyone is looking at a different time number but it is in proper order on each board.

Thus someone in London might post at 6 PM but my board in New York, if my time is set for Eastern Standard Time, would show the post as having occurred at 1 PM here but at 10 AM to a board reader in California.

Usually this option is in Preferences or Setup or something like that but I can find nothing. Maybe you have some setting options as administrator? Give a look. (If the board doesn't have it, then it doesn't…that's life.)

If there's no way to change the time zones then I guess Greenwich Mean is as good as any…heck, if it was good enough for Queen Vitoria (goutless as far as I know) we can deal with it.

You have a really necessary board, I'm glad I found it.

4:27 pm
January 15, 2009

GoutPal

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Thank you for your kind words.

A previous version of this blog did use a more fully featured forum software, but that created other admin issues.

I went for this simpler approach as it allows me to focus on gout rather than technical issues (most of the time).

The nearly good news is that, although we cannot do this yet, it is on the developers list of planned features.

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