Unable to change timezone in my profile

[puffpio]

When I try to update my profile to change the timezone from East coast to West coast, it says I have illegal characters in my username (the exclamation marks) I guess they used to be allowed but no longer..I would like to keep my exclamation marks, but I would also like to change my timezone to west coast so the message times would be correct...

Any help?

 

[allisolm]

Sigh. Why is the "search before posting" part so hard?

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