Title: Timezone problems
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Timezone problems

 *  [arielmeadow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arielmeadow/)
 * (@arielmeadow)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timezone-problems-1/)
 * This plugin has an issue with the way it handles timezones for date fields.
 * So the date goes into the database from buddypress as 2011-11-09 00:00:00
    that’s
   just a date though, an arbitrary denoting of time the plugin uses strtotime which
   converts that arbitrary string into a timestamp, aka unixtime, which starts at
   utc or gmt.
 * My buddypress install is on pacific time, which means that profile date fields
   were showing up as a day off because the plugin uses GMT without recognizing 
   the local install’s timezone.
 * A silly bug, but easy to fix.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cd-bp-avatar-bubble/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/cd-bp-avatar-bubble/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Slava Abakumov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slaffik/)
 * (@slaffik)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timezone-problems-1/#post-3201622)
 * Yeah, will fix it.
    You can see the progress here: [https://github.com/slaFFik/CD-BP-Avatar-Bubble/issues/8](https://github.com/slaFFik/CD-BP-Avatar-Bubble/issues/8)

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 * Last reply from: [Slava Abakumov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/slaffik/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/timezone-problems-1/#post-3201622)
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