As User:Rosenkohl rightfully points out, LogEventsList::showLogExtract is currently affected by dir=prev, probably much like the offset problem which was fixed in r56687.
See this for an example:
http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Beitr%C3%A4ge&dir=prev&target=Angel54&uselang=en
The log snippet is from 8 May 2010, although the current block is from 17 May 2010.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
mhershberger wrote:
Unassigning default assignments. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/54734
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/47200 (Gerrit Change Id4380cd863ba69fc9b9afb5a0034d82ad4d9cc34) | change APPROVED and MERGED [by jenkins-bot]
Change merged. The deploy to WMF sites will most likely be a part of 1.22wmf3, see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki_1.22/Roadmap for the schedule.