"Enable Chat" and "Disable Chat" settings

[Adriano Faria]

Enable Chat

This can be used to restrict chat access to certain hours of the day. Enter the hour (0-24) that chat should be enabled.

Disable chat

This can be used to restrict chat access to certain hours of the day. Enter the hour (0-24) that chat should be disabled.

How this work ? For example, if I want to allow users to use the Chat only between 9AM and 5PM... what should I use ?

[Charles]

9 and 17

[Adriano Faria]

haha. Sure! What a dumb question!

Tks! :D

[roc13x]

So, for example, if I set "Enable Chat" to 5 and "Disable Chat" to 4, does that mean chat will only be online between 4am and 5am?

[Mark H.]

No, that would have your Chat *offline* from 0400 and 0500. (i.e it would online from 5am to 4am the next day: 23 hours)

Reverse the values to be online from 0400 to 0500.

[roc13x]

When the time is coming near for the chat to go offline, does it warn the chatters with a "System Message" like I saw on the chat here?
That message never seems to appear on my test install

[bfarber]

No. Only we can issue system messages (done at the chat server level).

[roc13x]

Well I set the "Disable Chat" to 22, and "Enable Chat" to 23, so it should go offline between 10pm and 11pm. But I try to access it at 9:30pm and it says "Chat Offline". Why?

[bfarber]

The offline/online time should be based on the server time zone specified in the date settings of the ACP. Is that the same as your account?

[roc13x]

Yes, the native server timezone is the same as my forum account timezone. Could DST settings interfere with this perhaps?

[bfarber]

It's a possibility, yes. I'm not sure how much testing that feature has had. Basic tests worked fine for me, but when you start throwing in time zones and DST and what not, it's possible there's some bugs there.

See if the cut off starts right at 9 PM. If so, DST is likely the culprit and you should probably submit a bug report.