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ALL USERS

I had previously stated that all users should select "DST corrections always on" for their "Daylight Savings Time Options:" under User CP > Options. I think this is wrong. I think that all users should select "Automatically detect DST settings" instead. Basically, select the correct time zone for you and then select "auto detect" and go back to the main index and check to make sure the time at the bottom of the page jives with your actual time.

CALENDAR ADMINS

For people adding things to the calendar, I have searched the vbulletin forums and found that other message board admins have been running into time problems like you have. I have made a change that one of the developers suggested and that has corrected some but not all of the issues that people have described. Here are some additional suggestions/instructions:

• When adding a show to the calendar, be sure that you select the correct time zone for that show. A lot of people are not changing the selection from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and their event times are off by 5 hours because of it.
• When adding a recurring event, be sure to add the correct "Recurrance Options". If your event occurs every Tuesday within the dates you provided, click on "Weekly" and "Tuesday".
• Realize that for now, the time will be incorrect in two respects.
  • The time may be off by 1 hour when looking just at that specific event because of Daylight Savings Time issues. I expect that this issue will be corrected soon. It is correct in nearly every other view.
  • It will also be incorrect for people not logged in.
  However, I would strongly suggest that you not try to make corrections to the time in order to compensate for the time difference when not logged in. Choose the correct time zone and times for your shows, because for the most part people the people you are trying to target view the board while logged in.

I realize that the calendar has been somewhat annoying lately. vbulletin added times in an effort to make the calendars more functional and it only made things more complicated for us, but I am trying to work with them to come up with solutions to these problems. Ideally, a show that you enter as being at 8pm, should be at 8pm regardless of what time zone the user is in.