The main page summary for posts, and the "info box" that accompanies each post, includes a date abbreviation like: Dec 25 '19
But for posts in 2020, the abbreviation looks like: Apr 22 '0.
Clearly that's a bug — it should read: Apr 22 '20 using the last two digits of the year.
Hopefully an easy one to fix!
This was also reported at various Askbot-powered sites including:
This ended up being reported on the Askbot issue tracker:
and there is now a proposed fix in the form of:
which is waiting to be merged.
Grateful for your pull-request and hoping this gets rolled out soon!
Hello, The bug is in the timeago.js file.
The year shall be reset every century not every 20 years.
here is the fix:
$ git diff media/jslib/timeago.js
diff --git a/askbot/media/jslib/timeago.js b/askbot/media/jslib/timeago.js
index 0c20f0242..5f9c8561d 100644
--- a/askbot/media/jslib/timeago.js
+++ b/askbot/media/jslib/timeago.js
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@
//how to do this in js???
return month_date;
} else {
- return month_date + ' ' + "'" + date.getYear() % 20;
+ return month_date + ' ' + "'" + date.getYear() % 100;
}
} else if (days == 2) {
return gettext('2 days ago')
I hope it helps
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@Evgeny -- This bug can be observed on Ask Askbot here, and also on Ask Sage. Could not see an issue or a pull request for it in [the askbot-devel issue tracker](https://github.com/ASKBOT/askbot-devel/issues?q=sort%3Aupdated-desc) but it would be nice to fix.