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Key: WEB-793
Type: Bug Bug
Status: Closed Closed
Resolution: Fixed
Priority: Major Major
Assignee: WorkingOnIt Linden
Reporter: Zai Lynch
Votes: 3
Watchers: 1
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Time difference in Wiki timestamps (aka editors timetravel)

Created: 02/Sep/08 07:21 PM   Updated: 11/Nov/08 02:12 PM
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Component/s: wiki.secondlife.com
Affects Version/s: None
Fix Version/s: None

Last Triaged: 14/Oct/08 09:26 PM


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Wiki timestamps are currently unreliable. It shows as if i were doing edits BEFORE articles are even created. See here for an example. I think it differs a few minutes... maybe up to 20.

As of November 7th 2008, this bug occured again and has a time difference of about 2 hours now. See here (edited article before article creation).

Time difference for some users is greater than 1 day. See recent changes



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lum pfohl added a comment - 02/Sep/08 07:46 PM
It might be that the Wiki Server's system time is 9 minutes too fast.

Steps to reproduce:

1) Create a page and insert the following timestamp markup: ~~~~
2) Press PREVIEW (or SAVE) and view that the ~~~~ has changed to "Name" and "Time"
3) Observe that the saved timestamp (PDT) is 9 minutes faster than reality.
4) Also click on the HISTORY tab of the newly created / edited page - the timestamps there are in UTC -and are also 9 minutes too fast.


Zai Lynch added a comment - 02/Sep/08 08:01 PM - edited
This is not happening for all editors. My timestamps are in sync with the recent changes log and history as well with real time. That is why the time travelling impression arrises.

Timothy Dryke added a comment - 25/Sep/08 09:44 AM
This is a serious bug when two or more edits occur quickly after each other. This way the second edit was according to the time stamp before the first one and won't be displayed at all. Unless you dig out the history page, re-edit the page with that information, and hope that edit won't be "in the past"

Dracyal Magic added a comment - 22/Oct/08 09:26 PM
This issue cannot be reproduced.

It might be that you have left out a step in completing it, but otherwise, it's impossible to reproduce.

Thanks,
Dracyal


Zai Lynch added a comment - 29/Oct/08 04:01 PM
Looks like this bug would be gone... *closing issue*

Zai Lynch added a comment - 07/Nov/08 10:07 AM
Bug is alive again. See this article. Time difference of almost 2 hours.

Zai Lynch added a comment - 08/Nov/08 03:43 PM
Now it's even one day out of sync... Look at the time when I placed this Jira comment, note that it is NOT edited and then look at this link. It says the edit would have happened at 04:48, November 10th. This comment here is done November 8th in SLT.

Zai Lynch added a comment - 09/Nov/08 06:48 PM - edited
I'm increasing the priority of this bug to major, since it is now present all the time since saturday and since it's making it almost impossible to keep track of the recent changes log. (please note that only some users are doing the "time travel" and that therefor the order in the recent changes is totally randomized.)

Although I can't explain how, this bug might be related to WEB-871. My lack of saying it for sure is the reason why I'm not linking the issues at the moment.


Strife Onizuka added a comment - 09/Nov/08 08:12 PM
This is a annoying bug, related to this is that there are some edits that do not have a timestamp at all. Recently I made some small edits to purge a few of those articles so that the oldest articles special page worked properly. This wiki has some strange issues.

Rob Linden added a comment - 09/Nov/08 09:54 PM
Sorry for the hassle. Things should be correct now.

Zai Lynch added a comment - 10/Nov/08 12:31 PM
I'll have a look at it for a day or two in order to verify that it's working correctly and then close the issue in case it vanished. Thx for investigating!!

Zai Lynch added a comment - 11/Nov/08 02:12 PM
Looks good now :-) *closing the issue*