Question

I have noticed that when I create a new topic first thing in the morning, the signature offered to me has yesterday's date. I realized that it is showing me the date in GMT. The edit template uses %DATE%, which indeed gives the date in GMT. That behaviour is not what I would have predicted, given that there is a DisplayTimeValues configuration option, which I had set to servertime.

lib/TWiki.pm has this code:

sub _DATE {
    my $this = shift;
    return TWiki::Time::formatTime(time(), '$day $mon $year', 'gmtime');
}

How about changing it to:

sub _DATE {
    my $this = shift;
    return TWiki::Time::formatTime(time(), '$day $mon $year', $TWiki::cfg{DisplayTimeValues} );
}

If I change this myself, does it break anything?

Or if that changes too much, at least could we have a %DISPLAYDATE% variable that can be used in the edit template?

Environment

-- RichardWalker - 13 Sep 2007

Answer

If you answer a question - or have a question you asked answered by someone - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status is in a drop-down list below the edit box.

Eminently reasonable. I don't think it will break anything, DATE is only used for display. Raise a bug report in http://develop.twiki.org

-- CrawfordCurrie - 22 Sep 2007

I'm unable to raise a bug report on the develop site. When I press the Save button I get this error:

Assertion failed!
 at /home/twiki4/twikisvn/lib/Assert.pm line 61
   Assert::ASSERT('') called at /home/twiki4/twikisvn/lib/TWiki/Meta.pm line 200
   TWiki::Meta::putKeyed('TWiki::Meta=HASH(0x9ec68a8)', 'FIELD', 'HASH(0x9ee1340)') called at /home/twiki4/twikisvn/lib/TWiki/Form/FieldDefinition.pm line 273
   TWiki::Form::FieldDefinition::populateMetaFromQueryData('TWiki::Form::Label=HASH(0x9ee54f8)', 'CGI=HASH(0x96336d0)', 'TWiki::Meta=HASH(0x9ec68a8)', 'ARRAY(0x9ee09b0)') called at /home/twiki4/twikisvn/lib/TWiki/Form.pm line 441
   TWiki::Form::getFieldValuesFromQuery('TWiki::Form=HASH(0x9f5c55c)', 'CGI=HASH(0x96336d0)', 'TWiki::Meta=HASH(0x9ec68a8)') called at /home/twiki4/twikisvn/lib/TWiki/UI/Save.pm line 222
   TWiki::UI::Save::buildNewTopic('TWiki=HASH(0x961cb3c)', 'save') called at /home/twiki4/twikisvn/lib/TWiki/UI/Save.pm line 513
   TWiki::UI::Save::save('TWiki=HASH(0x961cb3c)') called at /home/twiki4/twikisvn/lib/TWiki/UI.pm line 159
   TWiki::UI::__ANON__() called at /home/twiki4/twikisvn/lib/CPAN/lib//Error.pm line 379
   eval {...} called at /home/twiki4/twikisvn/lib/CPAN/lib//Error.pm line 371
   Error::subs::try('CODE(0x961cde8)', 'HASH(0x9eb6228)') called at /home/twiki4/twikisvn/lib/TWiki/UI.pm line 197
   TWiki::UI::run('CODE(0x9977dbc)', 'save', 1) called

-- RichardWalker - 24 Sep 2007

The bugs site is sometimes broken because of a wrong commit, or because the site is updating. Please try again.

-- ArthurClemens - 24 Sep 2007

• Tried again this morning - same problem.
• Tried again just now; worked this time. See Bugs:Item4717

-- RichardWalker - 25 Sep 2007

Closing this questions since it is handled in the Bugs web.

-- PeterThoeny - 18 Oct 2007