[new plugin] Suntimes

[kavuday]

Nice plugin RobA, I like it. One thing I noticed though is that it shows the local time as whatever the time is on your host server (I think). My host is in CST (presumably), while I'm PST. Any way to fix this?

[oxygenws]

kavuday, you can change time zone from plugin control panel

[kavuday]

Changing the timezone from the plugin control panel only affects the sunrise and sunset times, not the local time however. The plugin is still going off the servers time (no matter what the timezone offset is), not mine. What the plugin needs is a server time offset...like in s9y configuration.

[PENorwood]

I fixed the local time problem in mine.

In serendipity_plugin_suntimes.php on line 120 you'll see this

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print ("<tr><td align='right'><b>".PLUGIN_SUNTIMES_TIME."</b></td><td>".date('H:i')."</td></tr>");

Just above it I put

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putenv('TZ=America/Los_Angeles');

This fixed it for my timezone ... I am not entirely sure what all the different timezone/city codes are but it isn't hard to find with a Google search.

This should be easy for the plugin author to add ...

[kavuday]

Thanks PENorwood, that worked great. And since we share the same timezone I won't have to go digging for the correct code.

[PENorwood]

Glad to help ... it is a nice plugin and it is even nicer when it displays the correct time.

[PENorwood]

Strange ... no I am showing the time as four hours ahead of the actual time ... this started happening a few hours ago, before I implemented the changes ... maybe the sever time has somehow changed.

UPDATE:

Seems to be working again. I think the people who maintain the server changed the time on the server somehow.