i am using MT on the server and that server is in US.
i am setting timezone as JST+0900 because i am living in Japan.
but every time stump on MT is one hour later than real time.
for example, if i post an entry at 8:00 am, the time stump is 9:00 am.
i think that it is caused by summertime, right?
you know, here is not summertime in Japan.

is there way other than setting UTC+0800 ?

thanks

Hi Yosshi, I've looked at this problem today too and there doesn't appear to be a way to automatically adjust for summer time. I guess you will have to choose utc+8 and then remember to set it back to +9 once summer time ends in the U.S. (the last sunday of October). Maybe by next spring when the u.s. goes onto summer time again there will be an automatic way to do this.

Do you use Japanese on your site? I'm still trying to make it work here. I downloaded the movable type language pack and followed the directions as best I could but I still only see "us english" on the pull down menu for preferred language on the edit your profile page. If you have any advice, please let me know.

-Slim

thanks for your reply.
as you said, it seems that there is only way to treat with summertime problem.

by the way, can you read Japanese?
If so, i will tell you more about Japanese language pack and give some advice.


yosshi

I managed to set up the japanese language pack by installing it as it says in the distributable file.

I have a mix of japanese and english: http://fumufumu.q-games.com

One thing I had to do if you are using Apache version 2, is add

AddDefaultCharset euc-jp

to the VirtualHost section in apache's config file, or add it globally if you're not hosting any other sites.

MovableType doesn't work with shift-jis it seems (although it specifies it as an "example" in mt.cfg which is confusing!)

you should also change (or add):

NoHTMLEntities 1

and

PublishCharset EUC-JP

in mt.cfg.

Regards

Thanks Yosshi and Dylan. Yes, I can read Japanese fairly well (i lived in Tokyo for six years) if you'd like to post or email me in Japanese (rich@3jar.com). I don't know if this forum can display Japanese but I'll paste from the installation instructions. After uploading the ja.pm file to the L10N folder and putting the lang-ja folder into my images folder, the directions said this:

1. Movbale Type �編集画��ログイン�る。
2. Edit Profile �自分�プロファイル�編集画��移る
3. Prefered Language � Japanese を�択��SAVE �る

But when I log in and try to do that, Japanese does not appear in the pull down menu.

This morning I added the lines Dylan suggested to the mt.cgi file but still it still doesn't work. Unfortunately I don't have access to my apache config file so I can't make any changes there: I have used Japanese on these servers before though (normal html pages).

yoroshiku onegaishimasu,

Slim

ah ha! not sure what i did differently now but japanese does display correctly now.

my friend said his browser (IE i assume) prompted him to install the japanese language stuff when he went to the page. is it going to do this to every visitor of our blog? that would be kind of annoying and confusing to those who aren't interested in japanese. maybe i will have to create two sites: one english only and one with japanese only (or japanese and english).

thanks again,

Slim