And here the screenshot
Serverzeit = Server Time
UTC = UTC
b2evolution-Zeit = my local time

And the screenshot from the analytics screen:

We did it like this for performance reasons. Otherwise MySQL has to recalculate the date of every hit she it tries to show a summary.

@admin wrote earlier:

We did it like this for performance reasons. Otherwise MySQL has to recalculate the date of every hit she it tries to show a summary.

But it is wrong!

I guess it is necessaray only to correct the date and time. Or a better solution: saving in UTC and showing in the time zone the user is chosing.

Hello,
In my settings server time is set +2 UTC, along to b2evolutiong time. But also in this case in analytics the time stamp shows UTC time. It is not really a problem but it reduces convenience also in bugtracking when comparing to server logfiles.
Is there a way to show server time in analytics?

Regards, Will

Hi @saunders,

I'm afraid that the almost all (not 100% sure, but 99.9%) the date calculation of b2evolution is made taking as reference the timezone defined for your PHP installation. In detail, the hits dates are saved this way, so the hist of your site are saved into the database in UTC +2.

There is a core hack (inoffensive, but still a hack) that can do the trick. Please check the modifications I made here: https://github.com/mgsolipa/b2evolution/commit/1afefe848d5343425c5b7967502a5bfd601a1a07. I must say that you will need to maintain such a hack like this from upgrade to upgrade.

Regards!

We have a feature coming up in a future release where every user should be able to see all times in the time zone if their choice.

No finished and fully tested yet, so I can't promise anything, but that's the goal.