Last modified: 2012-09-08 18:43:28 UTC
The cite page is not parsing the date/time stamp correctly. An example follows Page name: March 26 Author: Wikipedia contributors Publisher: Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Date of last revision: 27 May 2009 03:38 UTC Date retrieved: 27 May 2009 03:38 UTC Permanent link: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=March_26&oldid=292591633 Primary contributors: Revision history statistics Page Version ID: 292591633 The date of last revision and the date retrieved are identical. They should be two discrete times. I retrieved the page on June 8, 2009.
Updating component, issue with Cite, not core documentation. Cite uses {{CURRENTTIME}} and friends in its default (and customized on enwiki) versions. The time of last revision is _NOT_ the current time, which Cite tries to hide by making the current time the time of last revision (and in turn, making your last-accessed time--which should be now--into the old time). Trying to use {{CURRENTTIME}} for both "date of last revision" and "when did you access this page" is confusing. This should be fixed to use two different things...maybe a $1 for the old time, and let {{CURRENTTIME}} do its job for "when did you access this page?"
{{REVISIONTIMESTAMP}}, surely?
Some wikis use <citation> tag, but now it is 'an invalid tag extension name'. At these wikis, the Special:Cite works properly, just if you don't change the <citation> tag. If you remove it ou add it, the extension will not work anymore, and the {{CURRENTTIME}} become the time of last revision. So, we still have problem in time stamp at en.wiki (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Cite?page=Wikipedia) and pt.wiki (e.g. http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Cite?page=Wikipédia).
That is intended, when using the variable inside <citation></citation> citation is only valid on Special:Cite
