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
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Yup, that is what I am afraid of.
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
KAndreou(a)rccl.com
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But, you'll have to change that code once we get out of DST
mediawiki-l-bounces(a)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
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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
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Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 12:36 PM
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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
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From: Shah, Nikhil [mailto:Nikhil.Shah@lendingtree.com]
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 11:24 AM
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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");
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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
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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-----
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[mailto:mediawiki-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of
Sullivan, James (NIH/CIT) [C]
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 10:17
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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
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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
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