Opened 72 minutes ago
#13890 new defect
trac.edgewall.org: Incorrect timestamp display (EST timezone confused with UTC+1)
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| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
This website shows wrong times, at least when viewing tickets. For example, I created ticket #13889 today at 20:16:46 UTC. From a ticket listing, Trac correctly displays the value "71 minutes ago" in the Created field. But if I hover the pointer over it, the tooltip displays "See timeline at Feb 24, 2026, 9:16:46 PM".
First, this should just display the time (perhaps with a parenthesis explaining what the link does). But more importantly, Trac is confused, implying the ticket was created at 2026-02-25 02:16:46 UTC, which is in the future. From the link URL, I can guess it is mixing the actual (local) time with UTC+1. I have no idea why it would do that; this is my main PC, which has always been at UTC-5, and it happens both in Firefox 147 and Microsoft Edge 145.
This affects at least the ITS. The attached screenshot shows numerous changes which all (except possibly the last) exhibit the same problem (I know since I originated them).
This comment is from Philippe "Chealer" Cloutier. I am subscribing to this ticket, but notifications seem to be broken, and I struggle to display my full email address or link to my contact information from this comment. My email address is available on Kune ni povos’s contact page. All of my comments and contributions in this ticket are offered under the terms of CC0 1.0 (unless otherwise noted).
Screenshot of Activity for today, with all timestamps wrong