Manual:fixTimestamps.php

MediaWiki version:

≥ 1.7

MediaWiki file: fixTimestamps.php
Location:	maintenance/
Source code:	master • 1.43.0 • 1.42.4 • 1.39.11
Classes:	FixTimestamps

Details

fixTimestamps.php file is a maintenance script to fix timestamp corruption caused by one or more webservers temporarily being set to the wrong time.

The time offset must be known and consistent. Start and end times (in 14-character format) restrict the search, and must bracket the damage. There must be a majority of good timestamps in the search period.

Options/Arguments

Argument	Description	Required?
offset	Time offset (in hours)	Required
start	Starting timestamp	Required
end	Ending timestamp	Required

Usage

php maintenance/run.php purgeChangedFiles offset start end

Terminal

$ php maintenance/run.php fixTimestamps 2 20210801000000 20211231000000

Fixing 23 revisions (46.00% of revisions in search interval)
Done

In MediaWiki version 1.39.10 and earlier, you must invoke maintenance scripts using php maintenance/scriptName.php instead of php maintenance/run.php scriptName.

See also

• Manual:Timestamp
• Manual:Timezone
• ParserFunctions#time