Yup, that is what I am afraid of.
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But, you'll have to change that code once we get out of DST
mediawiki-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org wrote on 10-09-2007 14:49:53:
Thanks James for the wonderful and quick research.
Actually {{ #time: H:i | -4 hours }} works
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I got the following to work on Wikipedia's sandbox giving the correct
time for American EST:
{{ #time: H:i | {{CURRENTTIME}} -4 hours }}
This is based on Parser Functions:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions
which is an extension and would need to be installed for the above to
work. I assume Wikipedia has this installed and so it worked in the
Sandbox.
-Jim
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What do you know ... it doesn't work for me either. {{CURRENTTIME}}
gives UTC, according to some help pages I could find
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Variable). It doesn't appear to
allow offsets to the answer it gives.
So now I'll join you in asking the question, how can the local time be
displayed on a page?
-Jim
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Thanks James, This did not work either.
#Set Default Timezone
$wgLocaltimezone = "America/New_York"; $oldtz = getenv("TZ");
putenv("TZ=$wgLocaltimezone"); $wgLocalTZoffset = date("Z") / 60;
putenv("TZ=$oldtz");
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Try adding:
# Versions before 1.7.0 used $wgLocalTZoffset as hours (3600
seconds/hour).
# After 1.7.0 offset as minutes (60 seconds/minute) $wgLocalTZoffset =
date("Z") / 60; putenv("TZ=$oldtz");
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Thanks Jim,
I have added
#Set Default Timezone
$wgLocaltimezone = "America/New_York"; $oldtz = getenv("TZ");
putenv("TZ=$wgLocaltimezone");
To the LocalSettings.php
But I keep getting {{CURRENTTIME}} in UTC
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Check out
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Timezone
-Jim
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From: Shah, Nikhil [mailto:Nikhil.Shah@lendingtree.com]
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 9:26 AM
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{{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC, The clock on my server shows time
in EDT.
What so I use for showing the local time?
Thanks,
Nikhil
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