Times need to be formatted by a global formatting string; right now they’re all (deliberately) the default.
Timezones need to be used! All incoming dates should be immediately converted to UTC, and spat back out as a local timezone (which users can configure). Not sure what the default should be; tempted to use UTC and show the current time in base.mako, OR see if something in http will hint at it.
Things that are relevant:
Forum posts (saved timestamp needs to be UTC)
Git log on front page (incoming too!)
RSS stuff on front page (incoming too!)
User registration time
GTS uploads
Any datetime column in the db anywhere
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Updated on: 2010/10/08 08:00:35 +0000
Start date: 2010/07/18
Musing: it’d be kinda cool to see timestamps in both my timezone and the poster’s timezone, so that I can tell when the post was posted in an absolute sense, and when it was posted to the poster—it could be interesting to note that (s)he posted it at 3 AM. Though that second timestamp would probably need to be… less prominent, somehow.
Reported by Eevee on 2010/07/18 01:12:38 +0000 · Migrated from Redmine issue 291
Things that are relevant:
Any datetime column in the db anywhere
Redmine metadata: Updated on: 2010/10/08 08:00:35 +0000 Start date: 2010/07/18
Comment by Zhorken from 2010/08/10 00:50:00 +0000
Musing: it’d be kinda cool to see timestamps in both my timezone and the poster’s timezone, so that I can tell when the post was posted in an absolute sense, and when it was posted to the poster—it could be interesting to note that (s)he posted it at 3 AM. Though that second timestamp would probably need to be… less prominent, somehow.
Comment by Eevee from 2010/10/07 01:59:26 +0000
Comment by Eevee from 2010/10/08 08:00:35 +0000