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Title: Time zone
Post by: WzeroMN on August 06, 2014, 12:38:00 AM
Everything shows as my time plus 7 hours. Is there no way to have times shown in my own time zone? It is pretty confusing to see such a 7 hour forward. At the very least UTC would be nice or better yet would be both my time and UTC and time  of other poster.

I also see no spell checking on Windows but do get it when using IOS device as I am now.
Title: Re: Time zone
Post by: jch2103 on August 06, 2014, 01:39:31 AM
Quote from: WzeroMN on August 06, 2014, 12:38:00 AM
I also see no spell checking on Windows but do get it when using IOS device as I am now.

If you mean spell checking on this forum, see https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?topic=3060.msg19932#msg19932
Title: Re: Time zone
Post by: jch2103 on August 06, 2014, 01:47:29 AM
Quote from: WzeroMN on August 06, 2014, 12:38:00 AM
Everything shows as my time plus 7 hours. Is there no way to have times shown in my own time zone? It is pretty confusing to see such a 7 hour forward. At the very least UTC would be nice or better yet would be both my time and UTC and time  of other poster.

Oh, you mean the forum time display... See https://www.photools.com/community/index.php?action=profile;area=theme;u=8
(Disclaimer: I haven't tried it.)
Title: Re: Time zone
Post by: WzeroMN on August 06, 2014, 02:16:51 AM
Well I see that Chrome has spellcheck. I was using speckie on my most used IE11 but it is not supported on W8.1 64 bit so maybe another reason to permanently switch browsers. Biggest problem is that ROBOFORM works best on IE.
Title: Re: Time zone
Post by: Mario on August 06, 2014, 01:20:48 PM
Quote from: WzeroMN on August 06, 2014, 12:38:00 AM
Everything shows as my time plus 7 hours.

Please define "everything". Do you mean the system clock in Windows? Or how IMatch displays date and times? If so, where? In the file window? Metadata Panel?
Please first read the information about date and time zones, how metadata uses it, how IMatch deals with it in the following help topic:

Search for

Time Zones

This opens the help for the Edit > Preferences > Metadata 2 dialog. Press <Ctrl>+<F> to search the topic and search for Time Zone.


Quote from: WzeroMN on August 06, 2014, 12:38:00 AM
I also see no spell checking on Windows but do get it when using IOS device as I am now.
Spell checking is supported on all major browsers in Windows. You might need to enable it.
Title: Re: Time zone
Post by: WzeroMN on August 06, 2014, 02:05:40 PM
I have seen no problem in Imatch times. I refer to times on this Forum. It says one was posted at 01:20:48pm for instance. In the first place thee is no need at all for am or pm when time given in 24 hour format and I would really like the posting time to be my own time or better yet to shows posting time of both the originator and the responder. Time zone handling is a real mess on all forums and I realize you are not the coder of the forum code so probably cannot change anything.
Best would be 3 times in my opinion
Originator of thread local time using DT if appropriate.
same for responders..
UTC OF current post.

Sorry I implied Imatch times were erroneous.
Title: Re: Time zone
Post by: Mario on August 06, 2014, 02:47:55 PM
Have you checked the community options for your user profile? I think you can configure in which time zone the community displays dates and times for your member account. Please note that I don't write or change the Simple Machines Forum software used to run this community.
Title: Re: Time zone
Post by: Richard on August 06, 2014, 03:16:58 PM
To set the time zone select Profile > Modify Profile > look and layout

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Title: Re: Time zone
Post by: WzeroMN on August 06, 2014, 03:30:58 PM
Thanks. This Forum and the Imatch software are the best. DXLABS ham radio logging and tracking Software are the only two unbelievably well supported and with friendly posts too. I am very happy. Now I really need to get learning Imatch and paint Shop Pro :-)