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On Dec 2, 2004, at 4:34 PM, Gerald Lucas wrote:
> Sorry if this is an obvious one, but my media wiki seems to be set to
> GMT. Is there a way to change this? It's bothering the heck out of my
> students. Thanks.

This should help:
http://mail.wikipedia.org/pipermail/mediawiki-l/2004-April/000357.html

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

On Thursday 02 December 2004 4:34 pm, Gerald Lucas wrote:
> Sorry if this is an obvious one, but my media wiki seems to be set to
> GMT.

This is normal.

> Is there a way to change this?

Yup, and your students could do it if they bothered looking at their
preferences.

--
Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.dyndns.org
http://ursine.dyndns.org/

Yes, I see that. Thanks for your helpful response, Paul. However, I
was asking if there is a way to change it for the entire wiki.


On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 19:02:40 -0800, Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 02 December 2004 4:34 pm, Gerald Lucas wrote:
> > Sorry if this is an obvious one, but my media wiki seems to be set to
> > GMT.
>
> This is normal.
>
> > Is there a way to change this?
>
> Yup, and your students could do it if they bothered looking at their
> preferences.
>
> --
> Paul Johnson
> baloo@ursine.dyndns.org
> http://ursine.dyndns.org/
>
>
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Looking forwards, one of the improvements in v1.4 is expected to be to
allow all user settings to have defaults set by site administrators.
See http://bugzilla.wikipedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=924

-- Zigger

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 19:34:29 -0500, Gerald Lucas wrote:
> Sorry if this is an obvious one, but my media wiki seems to be set to
> GMT. Is there a way to change this? It's bothering the heck out of my
> students. Thanks.
> ...