Jason Davies wrote:
The new installation was unusable. Apart from the silly dates, I couldn't update any Wiki pages. The "recent changes" pages showed a list of changes dated in the year 2030, and the history of an individual page showed potty dates such as 1919 or 1995. Check it out at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/calt/alpd/wiki-new
I've certainly never seen anything like that before.
You might want to look in the database to see what the cur_timestamp and old_timestamp fields actually contain.
Check also that the computer's clock is set correctly, and that the time() function returns sane values.
Interestingly, the Recent Changes changes from now link contains the correct MediaWiki-format timestamp: 20050328203841 but the display is '08:20, 9 Feb 1920'.
What sort of computer is this? What OS/architecture?
Make sure that the files aren't corrupted and that you're not mixing included files from different versions or anything.
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