New day starting time

[p_white98]

Hello
I believe the system rolls to a new day at 0600 GMT. Would the admin consider changing the day change time to 0000 GMT?
This would show the new stories early evening, rather than having to wait until morning in the USA.

Thanks

 

[ElectricBlue]

Hello
I believe the system rolls to a new day at 0600 GMT. Would the admin consider changing the day change time to 0000 GMT?
This would show the new stories early evening, rather than having to wait until morning in the USA.

Thanks

Stories appear at midnight in an American time zone, which makes sense in any kind of server refresh system. You want the refresh happening when traffic is presumably lower, not at its peak. Besides which, your suggestion forgets the rest of the world entirely. There are at least 24 time zones around the world, not just the three or four in the US.

 

[p_white98]

I am quite familiar with servers. My expectation was that there was a single chron job that rolled the entire site to a new days stories. Your response suggests the server is aware of a user's location and rolls the day at midnight in his specific time zone. Which is NOT true for me. From my IP address you can determine a location. Proxys would mess things up. Is this correct ?

 

[ElectricBlue]

I am quite familiar with servers. My expectation was that there was a single chron job that rolled the entire site to a new days stories. Your response suggests the server is aware of a user's location and rolls the day at midnight in his specific time zone. Which is NOT true for me. From my IP address you can determine a location. Proxys would mess things up. Is this correct ?

I said the daily refresh is midnight in one of the US time zones (don't know which one). For me in Australia, for example, the story release is between 2.00pm or 3.00pm (depending on daylight saving in both hemispheres).

 

[p_white98]

I believe the day changes at 0600 GMT, which is 0000 in Chicago.

 

[Britva415]

I am quite familiar with servers. My expectation was that there was a single chron job that rolled the entire site to a new days stories. Your response suggests the server is aware of a user's location and rolls the day at midnight in his specific time zone. Which is NOT true for me. From my IP address you can determine a location. Proxys would mess things up. Is this correct ?

The server doesn't care about a user's location.

Even if it did, why should it care about YOUR location above everyone else's?