[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress Trac] #4310: Members Profile Shows "active sometime ago"

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#4310: Members Profile Shows "active sometime ago"
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 Reporter:  frank13                        |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                    |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                         |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Core                           |     Version:  1.5.6
 Severity:  normal                         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch reporter-feedback  |
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Comment (by tobyhawkins):

 Sorry if I'm being dumb here, but isn't the problem the use of strtotime()
 on line 803 in bp-core-functions?

 As I understand it, strtotime() uses the default local timezone when
 calculating the Unix timestamp. bp_core_current_time() should always be in
 UTC, which means when you put it into strtotime() the function will assume
 it's looking at a local time and try and convert it to UTC, resulting in a
 discrepancy in the timestamps if the server time is anything other than
 UTC.

 In the previous lines, gmmktime() is used to convert the $older_date,
 which should be a UTC time stored in the database. It would make sense to
 convert bp_core_current_time() (which should be UTC) into a timestamp
 using gmmktime() as well.

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