Sounds like your broker's server (like many including Alpari UK) works on CET (Central European Time) wihich is GMT+1.
CB
Thank you very much
All Oz-based brokers I have seen feeds for use one of three European timezones (GMT, GMT+1 or GMT+2)
Often without any summer/winter changes
-BB-
Hello,
Sorry if this is a silly question but I really am confused with the time on my chart (candles) and on the Marketwatch.
If it is 7:45 am in London, and 16:45 in Brisbane Australia, my clock says in MetaTrader has 8:45 ..
Does anyone know where this is set.. I imagine it is the server but then I would have expected it to be on New York time or something.
I just can't figure out which country and where this time comes from.
Thanksi
G'day KevinHorizon
Yours is NOT a silly question. I have the same annoying problem, and I live at GMT-4h only. It's a real nuisance to be looking at different time references at the same "time": the time on my watch/computer and the times displayed on both the MT4's charts and on my account's history as displayed on the platform. I find myself forced to be doing mental time conversions, getting confused and wasting precious time! The MT4 people should urgently come up with a solution, which I think is not complicated at all. It could be as follows: always use & keep track of the server's time as the "official time", but permit the user the activation of an option to add/subtract a certain number of hours from the GMT for display and local record keeping/reporting purposes only. Is that so terribly complicated?
MT4 is a great platform to trade, so why not get to work and perfect it even further?
Cheers
G'day KevinHorizon
Yours is NOT a silly question. I have the same annoying problem, and I live at GMT-4h only. It's a real nuisance to be looking at different time references at the same "time": the time on my watch/computer and the times displayed on both the MT4's charts and on my account's history as displayed on the platform. I find myself forced to be doing mental time conversions, getting confused and wasting precious time! The MT4 people should urgently come up with a solution, which I think is not complicated at all. It could be as follows: always use & keep track of the server's time as the "official time", but permit the user the activation of an option to add/subtract a certain number of hours from the GMT for display and local record keeping/reporting purposes only. Is that so terribly complicated?
MT4 is a great platform to trade, so why not get to work and perfect it even further?
Cheers
Mario,
I actually went looking for a clock indicator on the website. I found ' cloq ' which I will need to modify.
Maybe that could help you.
Thanks everyone.
Mario,
I actually went looking for a clock indicator on the website. I found ' cloq ' which I will need to modify.
Maybe that could help you.
Thanks everyone.
A clock indicator? lol that sounds funny but Im gonna give it a try :D have the same annoying problem
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Hello,
Sorry if this is a silly question but I really am confused with the time on my chart (candles) and on the Marketwatch.
If it is 7:45 am in London, and 16:45 in Brisbane Australia, my clock says in MetaTrader has 8:45 ..
Does anyone know where this is set.. I imagine it is the server but then I would have expected it to be on New York time or something.
I just can't figure out which country and where this time comes from.
Thanks