Changing the time shown on posts to NZ time

[shanreagh]

I find it confusing/irritating to have UK, ie BST I presume, time shown on the posts as the time they are posted.

Do fellow southern hemisphere posters know a way of changing the time to reflect local times please?

I have looked for a settings button but cannot find one.

[spades]

I suspect that you can’t, the website needs only one time reference.

I suggest that you contact Trystan and ask.

Spades

[arthurk]

Hi to all in NZ - I don't think I've ever been on this bit of the forum before.

I've found a setting relating to this in my Profile - click Profile in the brown menu bar at the top of any page, then any of the sub-items. Near the top of the next page there's a link to Modify Profile - then in the dropdown menu click Look and Layout.

The second item here is Time Offset, and it looks as though you can make the change manually. However, there's also a link to Auto Detect, which might use something like your IP address to do it all for you. I can't try this as I'm in the UK, so over to you.

[spades]

Thanks Arthurk.

Spades

[goldie61]

Well that seems to work arthurk!
Well done.

If you click 'auto detect' it does just that - put in the same number of hours difference that I would have done manually.

Never thought about doing changing the time before.

[shanreagh]

Hooray hooray...even using the 24 hour clock (AM/PM might have been too complicated) and having it show NZ time is great.  Thank you.   

[mckha489]

Hooray hooray...even using the 24 hour clock (AM/PM might have been too complicated) and having it show NZ time is great.  Thank you.   

Wow Shanreagh, thank you so much for thinking to ask that question, and thank you Arthur for finding the solution! 

[arthurk]

¡ʎɐʎ 

[kiwihalfpint]

There is actually instructions in the Help Pages how to do this .  I found it ages ago!



Cheers
KHP

Edited: For those that are going to have a nosey, it is under Profile, same instructions that arthurk posted