From: Chad Horohoe <demon@users.mediawiki.org>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:12:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (bug 17947) Use current date/time on Special:Preferences rather than Wikipedia day... 
X-Git-Tag: 1.31.0-rc.0~37805
X-Git-Url: http://git.cyclocoop.org/%7B%7B%20url_for%28%27admin_vote_add%27%29%20%7D%7D?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aa42646054b1e3616380a332d4420ee349e77c38;p=lhc%2Fweb%2Fwiklou.git

(bug 17947) Use current date/time on Special:Preferences rather than Wikipedia day. It has been pointed out that an arbitrary date can be confusing for users on a different calendar system. Wikipedia day is cute, but not useful.
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diff --git a/includes/Preferences.php b/includes/Preferences.php
index 2137f9d861..2971b9924b 100644
--- a/includes/Preferences.php
+++ b/includes/Preferences.php
@@ -1071,7 +1071,7 @@ class Preferences {
 			}
 
 			$idCnt = 0;
-			$epoch = '20010115161234'; # Wikipedia day
+			$epoch = wfTimestampNow();
 			foreach( $dateopts as $key ) {
 				if( $key == 'default' ) {
 					$formatted = wfMsgHtml( 'datedefault' );