[buddypress-trac] [BuddyPress Trac] #7911: Activity dashboard: Wrong date being displayed

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#7911: Activity dashboard: Wrong date being displayed
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 Reporter:  groston       |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  low           |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Activity      |    Version:  2.9.3
 Severity:  minor         |   Keywords:
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 I believe that there is a bug in the Activity dashboard, i.e., the page
 that can be accessed by administrators that shows all of the site’s
 activity.

 Looking at the feed, I see an activity that was posted ‘2 hours ago’,
 i.e., around 10:45 am ish EDT. (NOTE: when I did this test, the local date
 was one day behind the GMT date.) The activity list shows that this
 activity occurred at 9:27 am – this could be a daylight savings issue, not
 big deal.

 The second activity in the feed occurred ’15 hours ago’, i.e., around 9:00
 pm ish yesterday evening. However, the activity list show this activity
 ‘occurred’ at 8:52 pm 1 Jul, i.e., eight hours in the future! In other
 words, the date shown in the activity list is off by one day.

 In fact, the date for all activities in the list from the one cited above
 through one posted at 7:43 pm yesterday are off by a day.

 I just looked in the database and I know why this error is occurring. The
 records in the database are stored using GMT. Thus, the code that creates
 the activity list seems to be grabbing the date from the GMT value and not
 the date of the local time.

 So, I amend my opening statement – this is clearly a bug. My guess is that
 someone who know this code should be able to fix the issue easily –
 probably one line of code…

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