XF 2.1 Birthdays show up +6 hours ahead of time for CST users, even with timezone set to CST

[PatPeter]

I have a birthdays module on my forums. I don't think there are any birthdays for today, but one of my moderators is seeing birthdays 6 hours ahead of time. He has his timezone set to -06:00 Central Time, and even when he opens my forums in Private/Incognito it still shows the birthdays in GMT+00:00 time.

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I had him check his settings and I asked if he was on a VPN. Is there any other way to debug the problem he's encountering?

 

[djbaxter]

1. What is the forum time set to?
2. What is the server time set to?

 

[Mouth]

I have a birthdays module on my forums.

Is there any other way to debug the problem he's encountering?

Ask in the add-ons's discussion thread?

 

[PatPeter]

Sorry for the late reply guys!

1. What is the forum time set to?
2. What is the server time set to?

1. "Guests' time zone" is set to (UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada).
2. Server time looks to be set to Eastern Time;
   

   $ date
   Tue Sep 15 21:45:24 EDT 2020

Ask in the add-ons's discussion thread?

Isn't the birthday widget in XenForo by default?

 

[Mouth]

Isn't the birthday widget in XenForo by default?

Ah, your OP said module not widget.

 

[Mike]

As far as I can tell, the widget respects the current time, based on the timezone the user has set in their account preferences. (If they're trying as a guest, then it would use the guest timezone you set.)

Outside of the user's timezone setting, the only thing I could see being the cause is the server's time itself being incorrect.

 

[PatPeter]

Yeah sorry @Mouth, mixed up my nomenclature.

Thanks for such a quick reply @Mike! I can't reproduce the issue on my end either, so I just created a work-around for this individual user having this issue.