The timestamps on topic-titlebars, and in posts, are both given in "GMT" eg, "Thu, 09 Jan 2014 16:33:45 GMT" But UTC is the usual 'standard/default' time given in all other areas of the interface.
Mentioned by the anon here: http://ee-flow.wmflabs.org/w/index.php?title=Sandbox&workflow=050ddf68ce2bf00fc8b1fa163e68c4ac#flow-post-050ddf68ce33f00fc8b1fa163e68c4ac
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Severity: normal
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duplicate | None | T93351 Flow shows "in a minute" future timestamp on comments | |||
| Open | None | T70136 Flow: Timestamps for new posts, often show "negative seconds ago", at first | |||
| Duplicate | None | T61919 Flow: Timestamps should respect user's timezone preference |
In particular it should be using mediawiki's localization functions (So you know, it works properly in non-english languages), not RFC2822 format.
bingle-admin wrote:
The WMF core features team tracks this bug on Mingle card https://wikimedia.mingle.thoughtworks.com/projects/flow/cards/709, but people from the community are welcome to contribute here and in Gerrit.
Change 119877 had a related patch set uploaded by Bencmq:
Display timestamp in local timezone and language per user preference
Change 119877 merged by jenkins-bot:
Display timestamp in local timezone and language per user preference
This was working, but now Flow content is displaying timestamps in a fixed M/D/YYYY format, and in Pacific timezone.
Well, in no-Js "mode", this still works.
However, it looks like there is no JS support for formatting date/times, at all.
Is this about simply the hover behaviour when i hover over "3 days ago" or something else? Please clarify so I can work on this bug.
(In reply to Jon from comment #7)
Is this about simply the hover behaviour when i hover over "3 days ago"
Yes. (In posts, and in the TopicTitleBar "last active" time)
(But note that the "exact" timestamp is the only one available, after 1 month. I.e. There is no more hover behaviour, after 1 month.
E.g. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Topic:Rvi3v4h3bbh8mlbc
That should stay the same, but the exact timestamp should be using the correct format.)
Change 158100 had a related patch set uploaded by Jdlrobson:
Timestamp helper fixes for old things
Both here and on enwiki, the absolute timestamps I see on mouseover are in my local timezone (UTC+1) and in 12 hour format. My preferences on both wikis are set to show server time (UTC), and all other timestamps (including the example given in the preferences) are in 24 h format, so I'd much like Flow to behave the same.
We confirmed this problem on Portuguese Wikipedia. I have set my preferences to UTC, but I'm seeing the timestamps in local time (UTC-3).
The format is not respected either, per
https://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Topic:Sexu2st74jdned37&topic_showPostId=seyezwzmnzlg9nnw#flow-post-seyezwzmnzlg9nnw
Confirmed that this uses the user's timezone preference in non-JS mode, but uses the user's system timezone in JS mode.