TimeZone – UTC – GMT Settings in WordPress

  • Resolved mwarbinek

    (@mwarbinek)


    16 years, 9 months ago

    I am finding many posts in the support area about setting WordPress to the correct time zone area. So, to help others here, next time someone comes and searches for the answer, I provide the information here.

    You need to go to a website that provides the time zones for the world. Here is one link:

    https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

    Find the name of the city (usually the capital city) for your time zone area, click the city name and the next page provides the information.

    Look for:

    “UTC/GMT Offset”

    It will show something like the following (example is for my time zone)

    Standard time zone: UTC/GMT -8 hours
    No daylight saving time at the moment
    Time zone abbreviation: PST – Pacific Standard Time

    Then get the offset number, mine was “-8” and enter it into WordPress management area:

    Options – General – “Date and Time” – “Times in the blog should differ by”

    A box provides for the data entry of that offset number. Then I suggest to make a note in one of the side column titles that the time zone is…”(Time Zone Abbreviation)”, or if you can add it to the time stamp PHP code. This way people know which time zone you are working in.

    Another good link, where you click a letter that specifies a major city in the time Zone for your area is:

    https://tycho.usno.navy.mil/tzones.html

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  • Just don’t post the same 3-4 times because we have rules to delete duplicate entries!

    Thread Starter mwarbinek

    (@mwarbinek)

    The problem, Moshu, is that there is no link to the posting rules. If there was a visible link, I would have used it and read them. The link must be readly visible on the menu, which it is not.

    Please provide a link to these rules that apparently exist so I can read them.

    My postings were to facilitate the dissemination of good information since several posts were made by others in various categories asking for the same info.

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