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4 years 3 months ago - 4 years 3 months ago #207289 by ritapas
Where does LimeSurvey take current time? was created by ritapas
Hello,

I see all of our LimeSurvey installations use a different time than the (linux) server.
Here it is my LS 3.x, global settings page:
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Server time: 27.10.2020 14:46
while indeed

# date
Tue Oct 27 15:46:40 CET 2020



What's worse, while now it needs a one-hour correction, last week it needed two, so I had to fix it by hand.

Ths didn't happen with Lime 2.*

What shall I fix?

Thank you.
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4 years 3 months ago #207298 by tpartner
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Configuration --> Global settings --> General --> Time difference
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4 years 3 months ago #207304 by jelo
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ritapas wrote: What's worse, while now it needs a one-hour correction, last week it needed two, so I had to fix it by hand.

Why is that worse? The daylightsavingtime ended in Europe last sunday.
That cause the change from +2 to +1.

The time on your server is not the issue. LimeSurvey uses the timezone set in the php.ini of PHP used for running LimeSurvey.
The meaning of the word "stable" for users
www.limesurvey.org/forum/development/117...ord-stable-for-users
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4 years 3 months ago #207310 by ritapas
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Hello,
the issue is: I would like our LimeSurvey time just to follow the server time.

What I don't get is that we have two identical servers, both with date.timezone not set in the php.ini (so, it should be the default value, that is UTC).

In one of the servers, LimeSurvey reports the same time I get with the "date" linux command; in the other, it reports one hour earlier.
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4 years 3 months ago #207317 by tpartner
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Did you check the setting I suggested?
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4 years 3 months ago #207318 by ritapas
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yes, sure.
That is where I noticed the issue.
But what I'm trying to find is the reason why two apparently identical installation show a different server time in that page.
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4 years 3 months ago #207328 by holch
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Because the time in your PHP file is different?
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Note: I answer at this forum in my spare time, I'm not a LimeSurvey GmbH employee.
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4 years 3 months ago #207331 by tpartner
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Try comparing the server date in a simple PHP file on each server.

Code:
<?php
  echo date('l jS \of F Y h:i:s A');
?>
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4 years 3 months ago - 4 years 3 months ago #207357 by ritapas
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I've tested it with command line php, since I cannot add webpages to those servers.
Anyway yes, the times showed are different.
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4 years 3 months ago #207365 by tpartner
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In that case, it's a server issue, not a LimeSurvey issue.
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4 years 3 months ago #207369 by ritapas
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Yes, it was not a LS issue, which I was sure about.
I only had no clue about where to look around.

We found a solution: there was a hidden *.ini file for php which had a typo in the timezone setting.

So the solution is: check the phpinfo() page and find where the time zone is (or is not, like in our case) set.

Thank you everybody for helping me.
Rita
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