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and..... it is still not used.

I went to the phpbb 3.3.0 demo site and the date is in foreign format and timezone. (same for time)

The Javaranch forum started ti use something like this.
It is great.
I don't even have to log in and I have all times in my zone (and format).

Hmm, maybe here is a misunderstanding.

I (the user) set "[UTC + 1] Central European Time, West African Time" and "Summer Time/DST is in effect" to Yes.

Which is correct. I am in EU (CET time zone) and DST is (as of today) in effect.
So there is no error on the part of the user.

PS: The time of this posting is 17:22 local time (CET) or 15:22 UTC.

OK more info.

The post [RFC] Local time handling by Javascript suggests that that manual DST switch would not be required any more in 3.1.

But 3.1 Status does not list any related change. (at least I did not spot it)

Also reading http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=463930 I learned ...

Hi!

Today was the day they(we) moved the clock forward one hour (DST) in Europe. Or better, today is the day I will spend correcting all the clocks I encounter.

One of them is the clock setting in phpBB based forums (user control panel).
Like this one here at area51.phpbb.com.
(I could not figure ...

xerces8 wrote: With date/time output using JavaScript toLocaleString (or similar) both time format and timezone/DST will be correct for majority of users, without any manual settings from their side, or even the requirement of registration or login.

Here I put a demo: http://xerces8.comli.com/timepage.html

I'm just a forum user, but want to voice my support for this.

With date/time output using JavaScript toLocaleString (or similar) both time format and timezone/DST will be correct for majority of users, without any manual settings from their side, or even the requirement of registration or login ...

Did so: viewtopic.php?f=108&t=35064

(prologue here : http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=99&t=35034 *)

Currently the link URL in the notification email to the new posts in a thread requires a login, so the forum SW knows the user visited the thread and decides to send new notification on future new posts.

I suggest ...