Yeah, thanks.

We found the problem; it's a version conflict in the forum software. The version we are using supports time shifts (i.e. it lets us select what time zone we want to display relative to the time at the server), but the admin script does not. The operation of the forums is set using a config file, which is normally edited using the admin script (easy to use GUI). Problem is, to prevent errors, the admin script strips out unsupported features. Since the admin script is older than the forum script, it strips out the time settings every time we edit any features (like turning on or off authentication). We'd update the admin script, but the version numbering in the source code got royally fucked at some stage and we don't know which version is which! Too bad we're confused, the new forum script has some really neat features. It's easy to forget, and the parameters have to be added manually, which we just did. If posters notice a time problem, we'd like to know about it; it could easily happen again. Webmaster