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Thanks for the replies everyone.

I’ve searched high and low for such a plug-in without any luck!
Looks like I’m going to have to become a whizz at PHP!!

yes – thanks – i know where the time zone settings are.

if you read my question carefully you will see that regardless of a single time zone being set how does one get each comment / post time stamped with the authors time zone?!

fantastic – found it.

thanks guys – all of your advice has been bang on the money!

maerk – you’re right, the WP site is in a sub directory on a company website so it wouldn’t be possible to put the robots.txt file at the uppermost level.

thanks to both you and doodlebee for your advice – i’ve implemented both to err on the side of caution!!! hopefully i’ll see no more bots.

Otto42 – not entirely sure where i should be looking – i’ve hunted high and low but can’t find what you’ve mentioned in my admin pages…