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Posted Oct 28, 2007

Last night, folks in many countries around the world nudged their clocks backward or forward, depending upon their particular hemispheric proclivities. Don’t leave Big Medium behind: Your Big Medium-powered site needs a little nudge to make the Daylight Saving Time adjustment, too.

To change the time in Big Medium 2 for an individual site, update the "Time Zone Offset" setting in the "Settings>Site Properties" screen.

Programming around time zones and Daylight Saving Time is crazy complicated, and thusfar I’ve punted on making Big Medium daylight-savings-aware. Alas, this means that administrators must change Big Medium’s clock manually twice per year. It’s a hassle, I know, but hey... At least those of us in the northern hemisphere have the gift of an extra hour to make the change.

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Iwalk

Oct 28, 2007 11:57pm [ 1 ]

Josh, you're right on top of things. Here in the States Daylight savings doesn't happen until next Sunday, but I woke up today wondering this exact same question 'Does BM adjust for daylight savings'? As far as being a hassle, nah, Big Medium seems to do so much without assistance, publishing, image resizing, sitemaps...etc. I think I can handle telling it what time it is.

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