Thanks James for the wonderful and quick research. Actually {{ #time: H:i | -4 hours }} works -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)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(a)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(a)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(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l

Thanks James for the wonderful and quick research. Actually {{ #time: H:i | -4 hours }} works -----Original Message----- From: mediawiki-l-bounces(a)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(a)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(a)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(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l _______________________________________________ MediaWiki-l mailing list MediaWiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-l