Question

Some changes to topics are not reflected in the WebChanges Page. My 'ls' command shows the recent change in the date section. Is there an explanation for this

Environment

TWiki version:	TWikiRelease01Feb2003
TWiki plugins:	DefaultPlugin, Commentplugin, EmbedPDF,
Server OS:	SuSE Linux 8.2
Web server:	apache 1.3.22
Perl version:	perl 5.80
Client OS:	ms windows xp
Web Browser:	mozilla, IE 6

-- TWikiGuest - 24 Oct 2003

Answer

TWiki looks at the topic meta data whih is based on the RCS ci time; the timestamp of the file does not count. If the same user saves the same topic within a one hour window, the revision and RCS timestamp do not get bumped up.

-- PeterThoeny - 25 Oct 2003

Followup

The problem however, is that the changed topic appears nowhere within the webchanges. It's not the problem, that its the newer date or newer user. it's simply missing. several users of our twiki have complained about this. i could only verify this one occurence, so far.

-- PatrickKlinkoff - 29 Oct 2003

The only thing I can think of is a corrupted timestamp in the topic. Each topic caches the RCS timestamp in epoc seconds, e.g.

%META:TOPICINFO{author="PeterThoeny" date="1060545553" format="1.0" version="1.5"}%

Saving the topic again should solve the problem.

-- PeterThoeny - 05 Nov 2003