Item8499: Date entry is still screwy

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Priority: Urgent
Current State: Closed
Released In: n/a
Target Release: n/a
Applies To: Extension
Component: ActionTrackerPlugin
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Reported By: JamesPeverill
Waiting For:
Last Change By: KennethLavrsen
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?

-- JamesPeverill - 11 Feb 2010

Which time zone are you in?

Is your server running UTC?

What is the time related settings in Foswiki?

-- 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.

-- 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?

-- 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.

-- 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.

-- 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.

-- 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

-- KennethLavrsen - 04 Nov 2010
 

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Summary Date entry is still screwy
ReportedBy JamesPeverill
Codebase 1.0.7
SVN Range
AppliesTo Extension
Component ActionTrackerPlugin
Priority Urgent
CurrentState Closed
WaitingFor
Checkins
TargetRelease n/a
ReleasedIn n/a
Topic revision: r8 - 04 Nov 2010, KennethLavrsen
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