I was not able to replicate this problem. My server time is 2 hours earlier than my blog time, but the preview shows the correct blog time. Do you get this problem on every skin you have installed?

I've done some more checks and found that this issue only exists if the user level is below 5.
The reference manual specifies that only users with a level of 5 and above have the ability to edit timestamp on posts, however in my opinion this influences also the preview of posts which it shouldn't.

Yes, this would be a bug then and I'm happy you could reproduce this so exactly.

Could you please check this on the [url=http://demo.b2evolution.net]demo site[/url] both with 0.9.1 (where it should be buggy, too) and "Phoenix"?

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I checked the demo for v.0.9.1 and this version has the same issue I reported.
With the development v.1.6-CVS I had difficulties to test the issue, because whenever I create a testuser and set the user level for this user to something below 5 I get the following message:

Parameter «item_issue_date» is required!

So in this case something else is stopping the testuser from viewing the preview. Saving works fine.

You've just found another bug with "Phoenix" then. Nice one ;)

I'll fix those in the next days.

Thank you.

IMHO it's ok with 0.9.1 to just ignore this bug, as it does no harm. It's just an "aestetical" issue.

I fully agree, its not urgent to fix this. Once a next update is planned this can be fixed.
Thank you.

This is fixed in CVS for Phoenix. It should already work on the demo: http://demo.b2evolution.net/