I've certainly never seen anything like that
before.
the reply from the guy who set it up is tis Brion:
I'm not sure if I can post to that list. I did the whole thing from
scratch to prove I wasn't going nuts, and I wasn't. The new
installation is at
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/calt/alpd/mediawiki-1.4.0 ;
I've saved a copy of the installation log at
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/calt/alpd/mediawiki-1.4.0/MediaWiki-
installation.html ; the working version 1.3.1 is still at
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/calt/alpd/wiki - the two versions are using
different copies of the database.
We're using PHP 4.3.8 on an AIX box and MySQL 4.0.16 on a Sun Solaris
box. The time() function is fine. The rc_timestamp and rc_cur_time
columns in the recentchanges table look fine with sensible-looking
2004
and 2005 dates. The only difference I can see (using
phpMyAdmin)
between the working and non-working versions of that table is that the
working version shows 'NONE" as the "cardinaility" of the index
columns, but the non-working version shows actual numbers. I'm not
really sure what this means, but I don't think it matters.
If you can't get an answer from the mailing list, I'll have to start
comparing the PHP code of the two versions to see if I can spot
something. That should be fun.
make any sense?