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Shah, Nikhil

10 Sep 2007 10 Sep '07

4:25 p.m.

{{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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Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]

10 Sep 10 Sep

5:17 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

Check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Timezone

-Jim

-----Original Message----- From: Shah, Nikhil [mailto:Nikhil.Shah@lendingtree.com] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 9:26 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

{{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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Shah, Nikhil

6:08 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 10:17 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

Check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Timezone

-Jim

{{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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]

6:14 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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");

-----Original Message----- From: Shah, Nikhil [mailto:Nikhil.Shah@lendingtree.com] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:08 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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

Check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Timezone

-Jim

{{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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Shah, Nikhil

6:23 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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");

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:15 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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");

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

Check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Timezone

-Jim

{{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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]

7:35 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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

-----Original Message----- From: Shah, Nikhil [mailto:Nikhil.Shah@lendingtree.com] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:24 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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");

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:15 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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");

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

Check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Timezone

-Jim

{{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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]

9:09 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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

-----Original Message----- From: Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 12:36 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

So now I'll join you in asking the question, how can the local time be displayed on a page?

-Jim

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");

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:15 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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");

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

Check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Timezone

-Jim

{{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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Shah, Nikhil

9:49 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

Thanks James for the wonderful and quick research.

Actually {{ #time: H:i | -4 hours }} works

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 14:09 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

I got the following to work on Wikipedia's sandbox giving the correct time for American EST:

{{ #time: H:i | {{CURRENTTIME}} -4 hours }}

-Jim

So now I'll join you in asking the question, how can the local time be displayed on a page?

-Jim

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");

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:15 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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");

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

Check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Timezone

-Jim

{{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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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KAndreou＠rccl.com

9:58 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

But, you'll have to change that code once we get out of DST

mediawiki-l-bounces@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

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 14:09 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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

-----Original Message----- From: Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 12:36 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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

-----Original Message----- From: Shah, Nikhil [mailto:Nikhil.Shah@lendingtree.com] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:24 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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");

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:15 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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");

-----Original Message----- From: Shah, Nikhil [mailto:Nikhil.Shah@lendingtree.com] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:08 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 10:17 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

Check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Timezone

-Jim

-----Original Message----- From: Shah, Nikhil [mailto:Nikhil.Shah@lendingtree.com] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 9:26 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

{{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC, The clock on my server shows time in EDT.

What so I use for showing the local time?

Thanks,

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Shah, Nikhil

10:01 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

Yup, that is what I am afraid of.

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of KAndreou@rccl.com Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 14:59 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

But, you'll have to change that code once we get out of DST

mediawiki-l-bounces@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

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 14:09 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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

-----Original Message----- From: Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 12:36 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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

-----Original Message----- From: Shah, Nikhil [mailto:Nikhil.Shah@lendingtree.com] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:24 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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");

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:15 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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");

-----Original Message----- From: Shah, Nikhil [mailto:Nikhil.Shah@lendingtree.com] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:08 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 10:17 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

Check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Timezone

-Jim

-----Original Message----- From: Shah, Nikhil [mailto:Nikhil.Shah@lendingtree.com] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 9:26 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

{{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 _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l@lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

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Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]

11 Sep 11 Sep

2:57 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

To simplify the work make {{ #time: H:i | -4 hours }} a template and then put the template in your various pages. Then in November just change the template and the change will be applied to the various pages where the template exists.

-Jim

-----Original Message----- From: Shah, Nikhil [mailto:Nikhil.Shah@lendingtree.com] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 3:01 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

Yup, that is what I am afraid of.

But, you'll have to change that code once we get out of DST

mediawiki-l-bounces@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

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 14:09 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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

-----Original Message----- From: Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 12:36 PM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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

-----Original Message----- From: Shah, Nikhil [mailto:Nikhil.Shah@lendingtree.com] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:24 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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");

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:15 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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");

-----Original Message----- From: Shah, Nikhil [mailto:Nikhil.Shah@lendingtree.com] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:08 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

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

-----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 10:17 To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

Check out http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Timezone

-Jim

-----Original Message----- From: Shah, Nikhil [mailto:Nikhil.Shah@lendingtree.com] Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 9:26 AM To: MediaWiki announcements and site admin list Subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

{{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC, The clock on my server shows time in EDT.

What so I use for showing the local time?

Thanks,

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Michael Daly

7:18 p.m.

New subject: [Mediawiki-l] {{CURRENTTIME}} shows time in UTC

Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote:

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To simplify the work make {{ #time: H:i | -4 hours }} a template and then put the template in your various pages.

If it's a template, you could get fancy and make the offset a variable with a default value. Then the template user isn't stuck with just one timezone. Even fancier is to provide a complete set of 24 timezones to select by name without having to know the offset.

Mike

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