[derwildemomo]

German Echo user here.. I googled a bit a while ago and found a perfect solution for the timezone-thing. It turns out that you can (via some request tinkering) set the timezone to whatever you want, instructions here:

http://www.echotalk.org/index.php/topic,228.msg1081.html#msg...

edit: typo.

[schappim]

Perfect, thank you!