setting both for Pacific time (i.e. local time) newbb reports the time as "The time now is 2013/6/22 19:44". It is actually 10:44.
There is some weird going on on this site, though. Previously I had a problem with posts to newbb not being accessible when logged in as admin. See https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=76153
As you'll see in that thread, I decided it would be simplest and quickest to reinstall everything, after which everything worked. I have been out of town a few days but last night, when I logged on, I got the same server error, even though I hadn't changed anything. I'm really stumped by what is going on here.
Update: I have another install of xoops 2.5.6 on the same server for testing. It is not suffering the same problem as my live site (with admin not being able to read posts) but newBB is still reporting the time incorrectly. It is reporting it as server time +8 hours, as is my live site. So, the two problems don't seem to be related
Barry