Bugzilla/Notes/14286

bugzilla:14286: local timezone conversion / {{USERTIME}},{{USERLOCALTIME}} for time formatting / signature time expansion

Add localtime conversion capability to LOCAL{TIMESTAMP,YEAR,...} variable

• {{LOCALTIMESTAMP}}: current local time stamp in iso-8601 format
• {{LOCALTIMESTAMP: UTC time in ISO-8601 format }}: convert the specified UTC time to local time stamp

Example

If user's timezone preference is +0900,

• {{LOCALTIMESTAMP:20080527160000}} --> 20080528010000
• {{LOCALYEAR:20080527160000}} --> 2008
• {{LOCALMONTH:20080527160000}} --> 05
• {{LOCALDAY:20080527160000}} --> 28

Add USERTIME/USERLOCALTIME, the date/time formatting variable

• {{USERTIME: UTC time in ISO-8601 format }}: format the time according to current user's date format preference, in UTC timezone
• {{USERLOCALTIME: UTC time in ISO-8601 format }}: format the time according to current user's date format preference, in local timezone (as specified in user's preference)

Example

• {{USERTIME: {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} }} --> 16:25, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
• {{USERTIME: 20080527160000 }} --> 16:00, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
• {{USERTIME}} --> {{USERTIME: {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} }}

• {{USERLOCALTIME: {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} }} --> 01:25, 28 May 2008 (XXX)
• {{USERLOCALTIME: 20080527160000 }} --> 01:00, 28 May 2008 (XXX)
• {{USERLOCALTIME}} --> {{USERLOCALTIME: {{CURRENTTIMESTAMP}} }}

Apply this to default signature expansion

• ~~~~ --> User123 (talk) {{USERLOCALTIME:20080527162500}}

This will be useful that,

• the readers will see the signature's timestamp in their preferred timezone and format
• the signature's timezone and format will be consistent with what shown in revision history

Problem

• bugzilla:14286#c3: all above variable will be broken by caching
  • The possible solution may be to use AJAX --Ans 05:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
  • bugzilla:14286#c6: Post cache modifying is another solution --Ans 06:56, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
  • bugzilla:14286#c8: The already implemented {{int:...}} also kill content caching? --Ans 06:05, 2 March 2009 (UTC)