Time issue on new web server

[Annie]

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I had my whole cPanel migrated to a new server but I'm running into a slight problem. The old server was in America and my new one is in the UK. When someone posts to the guestbook, the time is 5 hours ahead. Is there somewhere in the script where I can update the time?

[Klemen]

Add something like this to the bottom of the settings.php file:

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date_default_timezone_set('America/New_York');

Supported time zones are here: http://php.net/manual/en/timezones.america.php

[Annie]

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately it didn't work. The script is usually installed on a different domain but I haven't updated the nameservers for that one so a copy of it can be seen at http://www.shopwithsam.uk/guestbook/gbook.php where the nameservers for this domain do point to the new server. I used the following;
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/London');

I'm using version 1.7. I tried installing a brand new installation of version 1.7.2 but I can't even get that one to show up - http://www.shopwithsam.uk/guestbook2/gbook.php

My new hosting company don't seem to be able to sort it out but I'm wondering whether there's something in the cPanel settings somewhere which is overriding the time.

[Klemen]

You can try asking your hosting company to set the correct timezone for your account.

You get a blank page probably because of errors in the settings.php file.

[Annie]

Thanks for getting back to me. I didn't get very far with the new hosting company. I've also checked the settings.php file several times and can't spot a mistake. The server is Cloud Linux. Is this different to normal Linux and could this be the problem?

[Klemen]

Cloudlinux doesn't make a difference.

The blank page is almost certainly due to a syntax error. Do you have any "error_log" files generated in the 1.7.2 folder? Do you get the same blank page error if you upload an original unmodified settings file?

[Annie]

Thanks for the error log tip. I found a missing ; (semi-colon) on one of the lines.

[Annie]

The 1.7.2 version at http://www.shopwithsam.uk/guestbook2/gbook.php doesn't show a time of the post. I can't remember how it got there in the 1.7 version. Tried searching the forum but the word 'time' won't come up.

[Klemen]

How about viewtopic.php?p=13445#p13445

[Annie]

That worked a treat. Many thanks.