Last modified: 2010-02-12 01:13:56 UTC
In my opinion the hardcoded "2001-01-15T16:12:34" on [[Special:Preferences]] should replace by the current local time. It is more useless to have a outdated time at the place (the description is in code, but nobody know about that). Show the current time is the best way to demonstrate the formats. The user can interpreted the time.
I changed this once but Brion or Tim reverted me.
Yeah, you right: r13987 and r15725 But that time is not better, than the other. The current time is the best one, because you have not a wheel war for a example and no hardcoded stuff, which nobody can interpreted.
*** Bug 18850 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
(In reply to comment #3) > *** Bug 18850 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** > Good point from this dupe: using current time would make stuff a lot clearer for users with different calendars than ours.
I think it's cute to use Wikipedia Day. People can read the time just fine, current or otherwise.
Created attachment 6159 [details] show what the 'no preference' time looks like; use current time, not 2001; show server date too This patch that achieves all of my goals. The only question I have left is what should we do when in some languages, like uselang=en, the "No preferences" item is the same as one of the other choices: Date and time Date format (*) 09:14, 27 May 2009 (No preference) ( ) 09:14, May 27, 2009 ( ) 09:14, 27 May 2009 ( ) 09:14, 2009 May 27 ( ) 2009-05-27T09:14:50 That might be rather confusing to the user. Should we make the duplicate disappear from the choices? > I think it's cute to use Wikipedia Day. People can read the time just fine, > current or otherwise. If you were a wristwatch store owner, would you freeze all your wares on your birthday, or use the current time? And try using uselang=zh-tw, uselang=ko, or uselang=ja. Such users are forced to calculate in their heads if 2001 and their local date match or not.
>This patch that achieves all of my goals. <This patch achieves all of my goals. see bug 18850.
Done in r62348. Note that I only did the timestamp change from Wikipedia day to wfTimestampNow(). Other unrelated changes from Jidanni can be filed as a separate bug, if anyone thinks it's worth it.
