====== Setting TimeZone ======

===== Edit DokuWiki Conf =====

To set the correct timezone, edit ''conf/local.protected.php'' or create it if it does not already exist. Add the line:

<code php>
date_default_timezone_set("GMT");
</code>

The modification goes after "<?php"; if it is not already there, it can be added as follows
<code php conf/local.protected.php>
<?php
date_default_timezone_set("GMT");
</code>

Note that if you modify ''conf/local.php'', your changes will be lost when you configure via the GUI.

**ATTENTION: This may cause the RSS feed to crash, in which it will flood updates every <set option> minutes for X hours in a row by a time shift of X hours east, and updates will not be considered fresh immediately after a posting by a time shift west**

For changing time zone on linux shared hosting - dokuWiki/inc/init.php - search "date_default_timezone_set" (line #93 for Greebo build) - Set you own time zone.
e.g. ''%%date_default_timezone_set('Asia/Kolkata');%%'' for india. You may also try double quotes, if single quotes give a PHP warning...

**ATTENTION: This may cause the RSS feed to crash, in which it will flood updates every <set option> minutes for X hours in a row by a time shift of X hours east, and updates will not be considered fresh immediately after a posting by a time shift west**

===== Edit PHP Conf =====

Alternatively, edit the php.ini file.

For example, in Ubuntu edit ''/etc/php5/fpm/php.ini''.

Uncomment the '';date.timezone = '' line and add your timezone.

<code ini>
date.timezone = America/Chicago
</code>

Then reload PHP to make the change take effect.

  /etc/init.d/php5-fpm reload

===== Timezones =====

The PHP site lists the [[http://us.php.net/timezones|available timezones]].

For example, if you live in Chicago, replace GMT with "America/Chicago".

===== Timezones for users =====

I use this for my UTS+10 timezone (look at "shift" var) and posted a link on my site for readers
https://github.com/Comicslate/Userscripts/blob/master/Comicslate/TimeFix.user.js

It would be nice to make a plugin to request a timezone in a user profile and store this parameter in a cookie