Something wrong with date time computation when quiz is limited to once a day

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2 years 5 months ago #7 by John Bongiovanni

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Sounds great, thanks. Since you use server time to set the datetime_taken, then using server time to check for cooldown time makes sense.

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2 years 5 months ago #8 by Christopher Mavros

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Thank you John.
Let me know if you need any further assistance.

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2 years 5 months ago #9 by John Bongiovanni

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This almost does it, with one little twist. Since the server time (which I can't change) is UTC, it does the day computation for UTC, not local time. I can live with this, and just explain when asked that it might be two days instead of one to wait to retake.
I do expect that this would be a common problem for sites using a shared server from a hosting service with a server time that's not local time.

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2 years 5 months ago #10 by Christopher Mavros

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Yes, that's reasonable.

I'm just checking. You have changed the Server timezone in Joomla's Global Configuration settings, haven't you?

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2 years 5 months ago #11 by John Bongiovanni

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Yes, the Website Time Zone in Global Configuration->Server is Los Angeles

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2 years 5 months ago #12 by Christopher Mavros

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It seems that the server ignores the timezone setting.
One last attempt could be to set the timezone in .htaccess:

php_value date.timezone "America/Los_Angeles"

I can't think of anything else we could do in this case.

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