Bug: Fix Y2K problem in "initials"

Motivation

On the edit page, under the signature, is a line with the users's initials and some other stuff, including a date. The date is off by 1900 years.

Description

As it turns out, gmtime() returns the years since 1900. (This worked much better in the 20th century than the 21st.)

Implementation

One-line fix: it adds 1900 to the years after it set in Edit.pm by gmtime().

It is quite possible that there are other places where the year is off by 1900, but I haven't seen them yet.

Note: Patch is attached as http://www.twiki.org/p/pub/Codev/GmtimeYear2000Problem/y2k.diff. The patch is against the 20040507beta release.

-- DuckySherwood - 02 Jun 2004

Discussion

Thanks Ducky. I changed this patch porposal to a BugReport (with fix, thanks!)

There are some pending usability issues with the TerserSignature that should be resolved as well.

-- PeterThoeny - 02 Jun 2004

This fix is not needed anymore because the code for the short-form signature has been pulled from the CairoRelease, see TerserSignature.

-- PeterThoeny - 11 Jul 2004

Fix Record