[#14860] - Check-in button tool-tip displays time using system time.
- Closed
- 9 Sep 2017
- Very low
- Build: staging
- # 14860
Steps to reproduce the issue
In com_content, when an item is checked out, a check-in button is added near the article title.
The button has a tool-tip with information about the checked out user ad checked out date and time.
The tool-tip displays the date using system time and this is misleading for a user using a different time zone.
Expected result
The tool-tip should display the date using local user time.
Actual result
The tool-tip displays the date using system time.
System information (as much as possible)
- Joomla 3.7
Additional comments
This behaviour is shared by many components (maybe all?!).
joomla-cms-bot
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Many dates are already displayed using user time zone.
The point is that the tool-tip should give the user an information about the time the item has been checked out and actually this information is not clear at all.
I do look at checked out time. before I press the check-in button, if I'm operating in a context where there are different users accessing the back-end of a website. But I have to remember that my time zone is not the same of the system and that the time displayed is not correct.
franz-wohlkoenig
- | Category | ⇒ | com_content |
| Priority | Medium | ⇒ | Very low |
| Status | New | ⇒ | Needs Review |
| Status | Needs Review | ⇒ | Closed |
| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2017-09-09 12:52:46 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | brianteeman |
BTW, I tested that. The date/time displays corresponds to the user time zone i.e. it is saved as UTC in the db and customized in the display. Therefore if multiple users have access to back-end and use different time zones, they will see the checked out date/time corresponding to their time zone, NOT the system time of their OS at all.
Users may have set their time zone to the same as their OS (usually it's a normal setting), thus the confusion.
If this change was to be done then we need to change every date everywhere to use local time.
I think k it is wrong to make this change. It creates more confusion not less.