Item8499: Date entry is still screwy
Priority: Urgent
Current State: Closed
Released In: n/a
Target Release: n/a
I just recently tried to use the
ActionTrackerPlugin on a project but I found that the date entry is completely useless. Every time a page is saved it moves the dates back 2 days. This essentially renders the plugin useless as well. Task
Item1187 discussed this problem but there didn't seem to be any resolution. I installed the latest version of the plugin but it still seems to be in effect.
Is there any hope to fix this?
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JamesPeverill - 11 Feb 2010
Which time zone are you in?
Is your server running UTC?
What is the time related settings in Foswiki?
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KennethLavrsen - 11 Feb 2010
Server is running EST, which is also my timezone.
DisplayTimeValues is set to gmtime
DefaultDateFormat is $day $month $year
Not sure what other foswiki time settings are relevant.
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JamesPeverill - 12 Feb 2010
This is a bad bug in a good plugin. Makes it useless. I have this problem in 1.0.9. What else can us users do to get this fixed?
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BigBaaadBob - 15 Mar 2010
This and
Item1187 are essentially duplicates.
FWIW, if I make the following change in Action.pm, things work better for me in PDT (UTC-7):
# Options for parsedate
#my %pdopt = ( NO_RELATIVE => 1, DATE_REQUIRED => 1, WHOLE => 1, GMT => 1);
my %pdopt = ( NO_RELATIVE => 1, DATE_REQUIRED => 1, WHOLE => 1 );
I make no representations that this is any kind of fix.
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BigBaaadBob - 23 Mar 2010
Turning off the GMT flag as above seems to have corrected operation for me. At least the dates do not shift every time the page is saved. I will start using it again and see if it stays fixed.
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JamesPeverill - 04 Aug 2010
Have now been using actiontracker successfully with patch above applied for a couple weeks. At least on my setup it works great.
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JamesPeverill - 11 Sep 2010
The 05 Nov 2010 version I just released should have fixed this issue so you do not need to hack the files anymore
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KennethLavrsen - 04 Nov 2010