Fossil SCM

Suggestion: label for timestamp in the eventedit form

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05f4bbc266e2209… · opened 12 years, 11 months ago

Type
Feature_Request
Priority
Severity
Important
Resolution
Fixed
Subsystem
Created
April 19, 2013 10:27 a.m.

By default, Fossil uses UTC for the timestamps of commits, tickets, events, etc. This is fine when the user is not allowed to specify the timestamp manually. In cases where the user can edit the timestamp manually (as happens with the HTML event edit form), the user can quite easily forget that he/she might be inserting a timestamp on his/her localtime instead of the server time (UTC).

The suggestion is therefore to simply include a "UTC" label right next to the "t" textfield in the Edit Event form.

Comments (2)

nobody 12 years, 11 months ago

By default, Fossil uses UTC for the timestamps of commits, tickets, events, etc. This is fine when the user is not allowed to specify the timestamp manually. In cases where the user can edit the timestamp manually (as happens with the HTML event edit form), the user can quite easily forget that he/she might be inserting a timestamp on his/her localtime instead of the server time (UTC).

The suggestion is therefore to simply include a "UTC" label right next to the "t" textfield in the Edit Event form.

stephan 12 years, 7 months ago

Fixed in [635598ed936c6].

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