DefaultTimezone
This is documentation about a configuration directive, which can be placed within Movable Type’s core configuration file, mt-config.cgi, to customize the behavior of the system.
This configuration directive specifies the default timezone for all weblogs. When creating a new weblog from the admin screen, the default timezone will be set (as a default) from the DefaultTimezone value.
Examples
For Mountain Time you would do
DefaultTimezone -7
For Indian Time:
DefaultTimezone 5.5
Values
Below is a table of each timezone and the value that you would use for DefaultTimezone.
| Value | Common timezone name |
|---|---|
| 13 | New Zealand Daylight Savings Time |
| 12 | International Date Line East |
| 11 | No label |
| 10 | East Australian Time |
| 9.5 | Central Australian Time |
| 9 | Japan Time |
| 8 | China Coast Time |
| 7 | West Australian Time |
| 6.5 | North Sumatra |
| 6 | Russian Federation Zone 5 |
| 5.5 | Indian |
| 5 | Russian Federation Zone 4 |
| 4 | Russian Federation Zone 3 |
| 3.5 | Iran |
| 3 | Baghdad Time/Moscow Time |
| 2 | Eastern Europe Time |
| 1 | Central European Time |
| 0 | Universal Time Coordinated |
| -1 | West Africa Time |
| -2 | Azores Time |
| -3 | Atlantic Time |
| -3.5 | Newfoundland |
| -4 | Atlantic Time |
| -5 | Eastern Time |
| -6 | Central Time |
| -7 | Mountain Time |
| -8 | Pacific Time |
| -9 | Alaskan Time |
| -10 | Aleutians-Hawaii Time |
| -11 | Nome Time |