[Plugin: Editable Comments] issue with timezone offset

Hello graymerica,

nice find. I had the same problem. But the above wasn’t working.

I had to use a more difficult way how to obtain current time respecting the WP time zone. I also had to switch the timezone from UTC-5 to “New York”, date_default_timezone_set wasn’t working with just UTC-5.

function dateValid($date,$type){
  $date = mysql2date('U',$date,false);

  /// Addition
  $tz = get_option('timezone_string');
  date_default_timezone_set( $tz );
  $datetime = new DateTime( date('Y-m-d H:i:s') );
  $offset = $datetime->getOffset();
  $time = $datetime->format('U');
  $time = (int)$time + (int)$offset;
  //echo '<!-- COMMENT: '.$date.' server: '.$time.' -->';
  date_default_timezone_set('UTC');
  //echo ($date-$time);
  /// End of addition

  $editablecomments = get_option('editable-comments');
  if($type == 'edit')
    $minutes = $editablecomments['minutes'];
  if($type == 'delete')
    $minutes = $editablecomments['deleteminutes'];
  ///  Modification
  //if($date >= time() - $minutes * 60)
  if($date >= $time - $minutes * 60)
  ///
    return true;

  return false;
}

Other than that, the “Comment updated” message is not showing up in the Thesis. And it also could be more secure. If you post a comment, everybody from the same IP will be able to edit it, it should probably check the WP commenting cookie at least.

Thanks,
Martin