#22311 [Opn->Csd]: Time zone unclear in bug reports

ID: 22311 Updated by: sniper@php.net Reported By: j-devenish at users dot sourceforge dot net -Status: Open +Status: Closed Bug Type: Website problem Operating System: N/A PHP Version: 4.3.1 New Comment: I added the timezone info to dates now. (and it takes a while before the change gets into bugs.php.net..) Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2003-02-19 18:16:31] j-devenish at users dot sourceforge dot net Hi, I find it unclear what timezone the bugs.php.net reports use. For example, this bug will have a 'submitted at' timestamp which could look something like "20 Feb 8:16am". It's not clear to me what timezone this would be in. It is certainly something vastly different from my timezone. I have always wondered about this but never asked, because I noticed that at the bottom of bugs.php.net report pages there is the note "Last updated: X X X X CST". Is that to say that the bug reports themselves are listed using "CST"? I finally tried to track this down and with a bit of man page reading and Google use, found that it probably corresponds to the POSIX CST6CDT timezone, which would be either GMT-6h or GMT-5h. However, I'm still not clear which of those two the PHP bugs are in. Having spend this time tracking it down and not getting an answer, I suspect this is (in a sense) a user interface bug. If the bugs are reported in CST, could you either explain CST or emit times in GMT/UTC please? Either way, if you could put the timezone label after the submitted/modified information, that would clarify the situation somewhat (even if you were to resort to saying UTC-5/6 [pick one :] rather than just using UTC). This arose for me most recently because I find I cannot work out when e-mail was sent relative to when bugs/comments were posted. In fact, part of the reason I'm submitting this bug is so that I can compare my current time with what the subsequent bug report says. So I guess I'll have the answer to my question, soon! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=22311&edit=1