# Notifications happen 5 hours after set time

**URL:** <https://help.egroupware.org/t/notifications-happen-5-hours-after-set-time/587>\
**Category:** eGW-users\
**Created:** [October 12, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://help.egroupware.org/t/notifications-happen-5-hours-after-set-time/587 "2005-10-12T01:28:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![wap3](https://help.egroupware.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/77aa72/32.png) [@wap3](https://help.egroupware.org/u/wap3)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2005, 1:28am UTC](https://help.egroupware.org/t/notifications-happen-5-hours-after-set-time/587/1 "2005-10-12T01:28:11Z")

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hope I can get some help here  
all is great with eGW, but…

installed on Fedora Core 3 with all updates  
system time is “local time”

here is what happens

set event for 15:00  
set notify for 1400 [1 hour before]  
email comes in but at 19:00  
or exactly 5 hours [CDT -500 is where I am] late

where is a setting to change eGW notify to  
local time or create a offset hack

thanks  
wap3

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**Author:** ![ralfbecker\_dr](https://help.egroupware.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@ralfbecker\_dr](https://help.egroupware.org/u/ralfbecker_dr)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 1:52pm UTC](https://help.egroupware.org/t/notifications-happen-5-hours-after-set-time/587/2 "2005-10-13T13:52:16Z")

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Hi,

mybe it’s a problem with your prefs.

eGW uses a time-difference to the server in the prefs, NOT a timezone.  
So if your server is on local time and you also added that 5hour  
difference from your timezone in the prefs, you would get exactly that  
situation.

Ralf

wap3 schrieb:

> hope I can get some help here  
> all is great with eGW, but…
> 
> installed on Fedora Core 3 with all updates  
> system time is “local time”
> 
> here is what happens
> 
> set event for 15:00  
> set notify for 1400 [1 hour before]  
> email comes in but at 19:00  
> or exactly 5 hours [CDT -500 is where I am] late
> 
> where is a setting to change eGW notify to  
> local time or create a offset hack
> 
> thanks  
> wap3
> 
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**Author:** ![wap3](https://help.egroupware.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/77aa72/32.png) [@wap3](https://help.egroupware.org/u/wap3)\
**Post date:** [October 15, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://help.egroupware.org/t/notifications-happen-5-hours-after-set-time/587/3 "2005-10-15T19:10:46Z")

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Thanks

that got it  
the descriptions are somewhat confusing

This is located is on the “forced” tab and as noted it an offset to the actual time and has nothing to do with TimeZones

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