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when protecting a page, use the wiki's default local timezone for the edit summary
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When a page is protected, a human-readable timestamp is written in at least two places: the protection log and the page's own edit summary.

The edit summary writes a timestamp in UTC, whereas the log shows it according to what the user chose in the preferences or according to the wiki's default local timezone.

The situation in the log is sensible, but showing the edit summary always in UTC is not great. It's fine for wikis in world languages, like English or Spanish, which don't have a defined wiki-wide local timezone, but for languages that are mostly spoken in a certain timezone it's inconvenient. It makes more sense to write the timestamp in the edit summary in the wiki's chosen local timezone.

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Amire80 created this task.Apr 25 2021, 7:27 AM
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Nemo_bis subscribed.EditedApr 25 2021, 7:46 AM

I think the goal should be to *display* the timestamp in the user's timezone (which will often be the wiki's default), but changing the timestamp recorded in the database is not a goal in itself.

As wikis can change their default timezone, you could end up with timestamps following multiple timezones. That's not an insurmountable problem as long as we write them in an ISO format and one has proper parsing; but summaries get truncated and sometimes one wants to make simple matches in SQL.

Amire80 added a comment.Apr 25 2021, 7:51 AM
In T281052#7031684, @Nemo_bis wrote:

I think the goal should be to *display* the timestamp in the user's timezone

Yeah, and this already works with log entries, but I'm not sure if it's possible with edit summaries, which are stored as text and have almost no parsing. Edit summaries can have internal and external links and I can't recall anything else.

IKhitron subscribed.Apr 26 2021, 2:45 PM
Izno subscribed.Oct 22 2021, 10:24 PM

Is this the earlier T234699: Protection edit description displays UTC date instead of local date?

Aklapper added a comment.Dec 11 2021, 11:12 PM

No reply; assuming yes.

Aklapper closed this task as a duplicate of T234699: Protection edit description displays UTC date instead of local date.Dec 11 2021, 11:12 PM
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