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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Here we go again… phpAdsNew is a great software, but anyone using it will know that we need to be very careful to patch it quickly to avoid to have our system exploited by many of the bugs that are constantly discovered (this is not only true for phpAdsNew, but most of the popular php scripts have this problem…). Anyway, yesterday (20061024) there was new bugfix version released, 2.0.8-pr1, and anyone logging in the phpAdsNew admin interface was warned to perform the upgrade as soon as possible.

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