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A new user interface for the UK Web Archive
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Time stamp difference on URL and UKWA Banner #232

Open HelenaByrne opened 5 years ago

HelenaByrne commented 5 years ago

There is a one hour difference between the URL timestamp and the UKWA Banner time stamp. Possibly to do with day light saving time. https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/en/archive/20170401020610/https://www.britsoc.co.uk/

HelenaByrne commented 5 years ago

I can't assign anyone to this. @anjackson @GilHoggarth

HelenaByrne commented 5 years ago

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HelenaByrne commented 5 years ago

Not an isolated issue, here is another example: https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/en/archive/20140605050417/https://twitter.com/SupplementaryEd/media

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GilHoggarth commented 5 years ago

Not to worry Helena, I've assigned it to Andy on your behalf ;) Looking at the britsoc example, the URL expresses 20170401020610 but the wayback toolbar states '4/1/2017, 3:06:10am'. I assume wayback gets that timestamp for the URL, at least ultimately, so I'd suggest wayback is rendering BST but the URL is in UTC. That makes sense, doesn't it - wayback is converting to the time people might refer to (as, presumably, April 1st is BST, whereas the URL is always UTC. Checking the 2nd example, that looks right to me too!

GilHoggarth commented 5 years ago

Perhaps we should reconfigure wayback to be ddmmyyyy rather than mmddyyyy though, that might make more sense to the UK audience.