Not yet, but I've added it as a request on the todo list.

We should use "minutes" IMHO instead of "hours" simply internally and allow to give values such as "0.5" in the user interface.

:)

0.9.2 was only a spam-trap improvement version.

b2evolution.net is since 2 days running on 1.8.
That means it's nearly production-ready.

But this feature is currently not in 1.8. François never reacted on my question(s) about this.

Feature still isn't in the latest cvs build, but yeh, time offset should be like;
1:30, so 1 hour and 43 minutes
Not
1.5, as 1 and a half hours.

As some time zones have a 45 minute difference.

So that'd be 1.75 hours right? Not that saying "1:45" is bad or anything. Just that any format that can handle quarter hours would solve the problem. No one needs a 43 minute offset!

Maybe the server time is off by a few minutes ;)

Anyway it would be easier to implement 1:45, than 1.75, as its time difference, just add the value to the server time.
When using 1.75 it would need to calculate 75% of 60, and then add it, instead of just adding 45...

Same going the other way. Detecting the time difference.

Actually, 1.75 is easier than 1:45, because it's just 1.75*3600 and not 1*3600+45/60*3600.. :p

Ohhh, thought you would be storing/working with it in hours, minutes and seconds, not just seconds....

Edit: But what if the server clock is off by a few minutes....

We use seconds internally, and currently store hours (in Settings).

At least, we should store it as minutes, but maybe right away as seconds. It's just one setting. Also it saves us one multiplication.. ;)

I'm not sure about the interface. This shouldn't be seconds, but maybe just hours as a value. The input field should also allow 1:45, 0:05, 1.5 and -2.

Sounds good.

Give me a shout when the feature is added and i'll update my time difference calculator to apply the change.

:)

It will be in 1.9 and is already ready, including the changed Javascript time difference calculation which balupton initially provided.

:)