During the upgrade to OpenX 2.6 you will learn that with this version statistics are saved now as UTC, opposed to previous stats that were saved in the database with the specific timezone configured. During the upgrade process you can choose to disable the warning for this change in your installation. Still if you have chosen to leave this on, and later on annoyed by this warning that will appear on all your statistics screens, you will want to disable it, you will find out that there is no admin setting or config to disable it.

If you want to disable the Utc timezone warning you will have to run the following mysql statement (this will just rename the variable, and not remove it completely):
UPDATE application_variable SET name='utc_update_backup' WHERE name='utc_update';on the openx database.

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The latest stable version of Openads 2.4 was just released today (20070911). I was really looking forward to see this version reaching a stable state and followed up this branch since it was called MAX (Max Media Manager) – the change to the Openads2.2/3/4 name happened the same time with the phpadsnew rename to openads2.0. This new version should perform much better than the popular 2.0.x release. I will try to perform the upgrade on one of the big openads installations I am managing during next schedulled maintainance next weekend and will update the post if the upgrade process was as expected.

http://www.openads.org/products/openads-2.4.html
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