Bug: Signature uses wrong date

I just ran into this on TWiki.org.

Test case

• Edit a page on TWiki.org at 7.30 am GMT
• Signature shown in templated text and for copy/paste has the date of previous day

This is reproducible, and is because of this code in edit:

        my $foo = &TWiki::getLocaldate();
        $text =~ s/%DATE%/$foo/go;

Environment

-- RichardDonkin - 13 Feb 2002 (generated by template on 14 Feb 2002...)

Fix record

I think this code should use GMT, to be consistent. The real solution is to properly address SettingCorrectTimeZone for all dates handled by TWiki - SlashCode has a pretty good system for this so perhaps looking at that would help. This would require authenticated users on view, so perhaps the UserCookiePlugin or SessionPlugin would be required for this.

-- RichardDonkin - 14 Feb 2002

Fixed in TWikiAlphaRelease by creating a new getGmDate routine that uses gmtime. The semantics of %DATE% are changed so that it now works in GMT, but it was already marked as deprecated.

-- RichardDonkin - 22 Mar 2002