Last modified: 2014-02-12 23:35:38 UTC
When setting a wiki's timezone to Asia/Jakarta (UTC+7), signatures get marked with (WIT), which however is the abbrevation for Asia/Jayapura or UTC+9, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indonesia#Current_usage and http://time.kim.lipi.go.id/. It should be changed to WIB.
(In reply to comment #0) > When setting a wiki's timezone to Asia/Jakarta (UTC+7), signatures get marked > with (WIT), which however is the abbrevation for Asia/Jayapura or UTC+9, > according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indonesia#Current_usage and > http://time.kim.lipi.go.id/. > It should be changed to WIB. Sounds more likely a problem with PHP...
So should a bug in whatever-bugtracker-PHP-uses be created? (sorry, I'm quite a noob in such things)
This appears to be a language confusion and acronym clash more than a bug. The tz database, which nearly everyone (including PHP) uses currently uses English timezone names and acronyms. So in this case, WIT stands for Western Indonesian Time (UTC+7), not for Waktu Indonesia Timur (UTC+9). In the tz database, UTC+9 is rather Eastern Indonesian Time (EIT), and there is no timezone named WIB. Here's a glibc discussion about it from 2005: http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=791
I've commented on the given link. And to the tz mailing-list http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-February/018608.html
Can't the timezone simply be localized?
The Unicode CLDR project appears to have localizations for timezones, among other things. And there's a MediaWiki extension for that: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:CLDR I don't have enough knowledge of how MW handles localization to comment, though; hopefully someone who knows more will weigh in on the current status/roadmap.
You can create the message 'timezone-wit' to used localized timezone, but works only for new signature.
(In reply to comment #3) > This appears to be a language confusion and acronym clash more than a bug. > The > tz database, which nearly everyone (including PHP) uses currently uses > English > timezone names and acronyms. So in this case, WIT stands for Western > Indonesian > Time (UTC+7), not for Waktu Indonesia Timur (UTC+9). In the tz database, > UTC+9 > is rather Eastern Indonesian Time (EIT), and there is no timezone named WIB. > > Here's a glibc discussion about it from 2005: > http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=791 Well, good news, everyone, the tz-code has been changed to clear the confusion between Indonesian and English abbreviation. Now it uses Indonesian abbreviation http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz-announce/2013-September/000013.html I've checked on min.wp by leaving a signature, and it's been changed accordingly (it used to be WIT -- English abbreviation, now WIB -- Indonesian abbreviation). I'll close this bug as fixed.
Oops... I forgot I've changed [[min:MediaWiki:Timezone-wit]] as suggested in #7. Without that, it's still WIT. So, what now? Reopened the bug.
