http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=145121

My timezone, which actually equates to UTC+13/GMT+8/SGT is not listed. I'm an hour more than you provide, in Perth, Western Australia, which is the same as Singapore and Hong Kong

Am I going bonkers and someone from one of these cities can tell me how stupid I am, or is this a genuine oversight?

Ryan

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Re: Where's my timezone?
by guha (Priest) on Feb 13, 2002 at 14:40 UTC
    My timezone GMT+1 used to display correctly before the move to pair.com
    Now I have had to change it to UTC+6 to get the correct time

    Which probably means 

    GMT+1 == UTC+6 or die "The Monastary Wall Clock needs winding up!";

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Re: Where's my timezone?
by little (Curate) on Feb 13, 2002 at 11:48 UTC
    Try the first entry in the dropdown list
    UTC-11

    Have a nice day
    All decision is left to your taste
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      That's the day before, 24 hours behind.

      If it is only times, not dates that get transposed then I'm happy, otherwise we're still not quite there.

      Update:
      To help those that want to check/fix this is it right now Wednesday 13 Feb - 9:30PM in Perth. The options right now in the timezone drop down list show UTC+0 at Feb 13 8:30AM, thus counting up to UTC+13 gets you to my correct time. I am also known as GMT+08.

      My definitive stab-in-the-dark conclusion: UTC time on PerlMonks is 5 hours behind reality
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        Well, you are right. It's a bug in the underlying data.
        grin As I write this it is 13.09 GMT (UTC+5), which means it is 22.09 in Perth (UTC+13), same day. So the dropdownlist provides wrong choices, because UTC-11 to UTC-7 are not correct, as they belong to the same day as UTC+-0 and not the previous.
        Why the heck does anyone in this world would chose not to use GMT+-x?
        Have a nice day
        All decision is left to your taste
        Update
        GMT-12 UTC-7
GMT-11 UTC-6
GMT-10 UTC-5
GMT-9  UTC-4
GMT-8  UTC-3
GMT-7  UTC-2
GMT-6  UTC-1
GMT-5  UTC
GMT-4  UTC+1
GMT-3  UTC+2
GMT-2  UTC+3
GMT-1  UTC+4
GMT    UTC+5
GMT+1  UTC+6
GMT+2  UTC+7
GMT+3  UTC+8
GMT+4  UTC+9
GMT+5  UTC+10
GMT+6  UTC+11
GMT+7  UTC+12
GMT+8  UTC-11
GMT+9  UTC-10
GMT+10 UTC-9
GMT+11 UTC-8
GMT+12 UTC-7
        Or did I just mix that up cause of our daylight saving stime? no?
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(tye)Re: Where's my timezone?
by tye (Sage) on Mar 04, 2002 at 18:27 UTC

    The timezone chooser and "user's local time" features were broken. I've finally fixed them. [ They were using localtime() where they should have been using gmtime() -- the previous server must have been running in GMT ]

            - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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      There are several other places that exhibit this gmtime vs localtime issue.
      • Last Here: field on home nodes "Last here: Mar 07, 2002 at 17:41 (0 seconds ago)"
      • the by line of regular nodes "by monk on Mar 04, 2002 at 02:27"
      • Some of the XML feeds
      Just noting the errors, not necessarily adding them to your todo list. (if I cared that much about it, I'd just fix it myself ;-P

      -Blake

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