Last modified: 2010-05-15 15:51:56 UTC
I have posted a message here on http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk#March_18th.2C_2007_on_MONDAY...._Two_days_on_one_date I think you can confirm it on your site if you add 9:00 to GST and make language preference to "ja". >quote Hi, I have just made a Japanese site that Mediawiki is installed on the server which takes GST as Mediawiki recommend 9 hour adjustment. Though today is "Sunday, March 18th", it shows "MONDAY, March 18th". It used to show "Sunday, March 18th" till at least 14:44 JST as the picture on the right shows. The reason for it is probably that dates and days are differently programmed. on dates, it is precisely indicated. on days, they made it just add a day for GST-based servers to JST clients. as a result, if GST area is on Saturday, it makes JST area on Sunday, which is correct. However once GST area becomes on Sunday, JST area becomes Monday while the date is precise at JST, just like "Monday, March 18th", 2007. I think the solution is to make days be calculated from the adjusted time not calculated from GST time. thanks
picture of how it appears http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/mediawiki/2/23/Two_days_on_one_date2.gif
*** Bug 10394 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Changing priority to high, major as it seems English users don't know how rediculous this looks all day long to Asian users as the problem dissapears if one uses uselang=en, as the day disappears. It is downright dangerous, as users looking at the day will think one thing, and at the date will think another, and base decisions on it. Imagine announcing the meeting will be held "Thursday the 25th". So some users will come on Thursday, and some on the 25th. Only those who accidentally somehow realized that Thursday was not in fact the 25th, or the 25th was not in fact Thursday, would realize that they've got a problem: their computer, the same one that passed the Y2K crises OK, is now giving drunk driver schizophrenic date messages. Never mind the historical accuracy of the encyclopedia, just at least get the calendar for the year 2007 straight. Does the UNIX date(1) command calculate the day in one timezone, and the date in another? No.
This was fixed by r23017, which fixed bug 8577. Upgrade to 1.11 when it's released or install the patch from that revision.
