[Mediawiki-l] Wrong time shown in ~~~~ signatures

[Brion Vibber]

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Rob Church wrote:
> On 28/01/07, Adam Nielsen <a.nielsen at shikadi.net> wrote:
>> I've successfully got a MediaWiki up and running (version 1.8.2) and
>> I've set the correct timezone in my user preferences.  All the history
>> pages and everything show the correct time, however when I sign a page
>> with ~~~~ the time that comes up is an hour ahead of my localtime.
> 
> Without additional configuration, the time shown in signatures, etc.
> will be in UTC as this is saved into the page content and isn't
> processed per-user.

Signature times are shown in server time, not UTC, by default. (Server
time may of course be UTC, and ought to be. ;)

If your server is in a different time zone from your audience, you may
want to customize it.

- -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com / brion @ wikimedia.org)
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