Is Joomla All American?

Comment by Robert Vining on March 2, 2010 at 11:16am

Rochen servers are housed in Dallas, TX from what I understand. So that is why you see a time that is equal to GMT -6 as a timestamp.

Where else would you host such an important site? (ducking quickly out of the way)

DISCLAIMER: The above statement was sarcasm and a poor attempt at humor. Please take it with a grain of salt, or shot of Tequila, whichever you prefer.

Comment by Robert Deutz on March 2, 2010 at 11:32am

No, Joomla! is ahead of the times :-)

Comment by HarryB on March 2, 2010 at 12:08pm

My opinion...Joomla! is behind the times ;-)

Joomla.org and many other domains that have large international communities should use GMT as their base time, clearly state this, and provide option for users to set time to their own locale during sessions or permanently, if desired.

Comment by Ivo Apostolov on March 2, 2010 at 4:14pm

@HarryB - Year and more ago (prior to my ban), I was insisting on j.org becoming international. My concept was refused due to Ole's idea (quite different, not bad, but IMO quite impossible). After more than 14 months, nothing was done.
You can see the result here: http://international.joomla.org/

Comment by Joe LeBlanc on March 3, 2010 at 1:53pm

Joomla can't be all American; 01 March 2010 is not an American date format! :P

@Brian it's possible that the other sites are copying the date and time in as plaintext, while JoomlaConnect is interpreting the date and timezone offset in the RSS, then recording it in server's local time.

In any event, yes, I agree with HarryB about basing everything on GMT and letting the visitors pick.

Comment by HarryB on March 3, 2010 at 4:29pm

Yes, that is true, but it took PHP until Release 5.1 to acknowledge that UTC exists. But that's OK...I'm partial to ZULU time myself. ;-)

Comment by Ernesto on March 4, 2010 at 1:54pm

Is Brazilian

Comment by Mustaq Sheikh on March 4, 2010 at 2:38pm

Australian ;)

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