Last modified: 2006-05-01 00:12:55 UTC
On the "My watchlist" page, the dates and times of the actual changes listed are properly adjusted for the user's timezone. The message "Below are the last xx changes in the last x days, as of xx:xx, xxx xx (UTC)." is not. I think it makes sense to display that message using the user's local time instead of UTC, which would make it a lot easier to calculate how old a certain change is.
I'm going to assume this is an English Wikipedia user...the message there does provide this time and date information, however, it is done via a customisation to the interface message; they're using {{CURRENTDAY}} et al. to produce the time and date, which does so in UTC. We could consider adding a $3 parameter to the message which would contain a timestamp adjusted to the user's timezone settings, however.
Correct this is on en.wikipedia.org On a possibly related note, the timestamp that gets shown as the result of a ~~~~ appears to have the same issue.
(In reply to comment #2) > On a possibly related note, the timestamp that gets shown as the result of a > ~~~~ appears to have the same issue. It's correct that these are related, although the latter can't be fixed. The text that is saved into the database has UTC preserved to ensure that it looks the same for all users, regardless of timezone issues. The case this bug reports can be fixed, because that text isn't saved into the database as part of a content page.
Third parameter ($3), containing the current time formatted according to the current user's settings, added in SVN trunk, r13984.
