encukou/test-2 — Issue #19: Fix time handling
Author: encukou
Created: 2011-11-03 19:30:06+00:00
State: open
Labels: involved, urgent

**Reported by [Eevee](http://bugs.veekun.com/users/1) on 2010/07/18 01:12:38 +0000 · Migrated from [Redmine issue 291](http://bugs.veekun.com/issues/291)**

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1. Times need to be formatted by a global formatting string; right now they’re all (deliberately) the default.
2. Timezones need to be used! All incoming dates should be immediately converted to UTC, and spat back out as a local timezone (which users can configure). Not sure what the default should be; tempted to use UTC and show the current time in base.mako, OR see if something in http will hint at it.

Things that are relevant:

* Forum posts (saved timestamp needs to be UTC)

* Git log on front page (incoming too!)

* RSS stuff on front page (incoming too!)

* User registration time

* GTS uploads

* Any datetime column in the db anywhere

Redmine metadata:
Updated on: 2010/10/08 08:00:35 +0000
Start date: 2010/07/18

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**Comment by [Zhorken](http://bugs.veekun.com/users/8) from 2010/08/10 00:50:00 +0000**

Musing: it’d be kinda cool to see timestamps in both my timezone and the poster’s timezone, so that I can tell when the post was posted in an absolute sense, and when it was posted to the poster—it could be interesting to note that (s)he posted it at 3 AM. Though that second timestamp would probably need to be… less prominent, somehow.

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**Comment by [Eevee](http://bugs.veekun.com/users/1) from 2010/10/07 01:59:26 +0000**

Target version: 2010 Q3 ⇨ —

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**Comment by [Eevee](http://bugs.veekun.com/users/1) from 2010/10/08 08:00:35 +0000**

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