This idea, I like it! And I think Yuri just volunteered to write the patches :P
On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Andrew Gray <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2 March 2015 at 13:49, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> But if we're going to implement something, why not just..have timezone >> be an element of the timestamps on history pages? It's UTC unless the >> user explicitly changes it, and if they explicitly change it that's >> known in the database (and already referenced to decide how to convert >> the UTC timestamp when the page is displayed). It's a perfectly >> sensible UI change that makes sense independent of this problem. > > This sounds like a good idea - in some ways, it's more robust than a > notice at the top of the page. It's very easy for someone to not > notice a general message, especially if they're looking at more than > the first two entries in the history. > > If we want to be clever, we could always get JS trickery to display > something like "xx.xx UTC ($localtimezone +5.00)" rather than just > "xx.xx UTC". > > Related point: if we adapt the way history timestamps are displayed, > eg by adding 'UTC', we should be consistent and apply the same > approach to the "old revisions" view of a page, and the "This page was > last modified on..." footer. Signatures have (UTC) by default, so > that's solved, at least. > > Andrew. > > -- > - Andrew Gray > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
