5 votes
fix the date range behaviour on the Recent Activity page
This may be a timezone thing.
When I click through to my Recent Activity page, the dates both default to "2009-01-29".
It's the 30th here, so I change the second date to "2009-01-30".
When I click the Show button, a bunch of new posts appear in the list, but they're p... more
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we added the current UTC time to the page itself to clarify this
Brad Davis
It looks like Yesterday is 'the 24 hours prior to now' and Today is 'Now till Now'. I suggest either change the Yesterday button to 'Previous 24 hours' and drop Today, or base them on a local time zone set in the user control panel.
JBazuzi
It's definitely giving my the wrong date range most of the time. Right now it uses tomorrow's date as the start and end. I think I'd prefer the start to be yesterday.
mabster
There's definitely still somethign wacky going on with this page. When I first visit it (by clicking the envelope) it shows me the right posts and comment responses, but if I then click the "Show" button, with "from" set to yesterday and "to" set to today, the posts disappear and are replaced with older ones. The comments are still correct.
mabster
So it probably isn't a timezone thing. Still, it's strange that new items appear when I push the end date out to tomorrow's date.
Jon Skeet
I believe the date is a UTC date, which is what the SO server uses for rep limiting. It may well be inconvenient in other timezones, but it makes the reputation side of things easier to understand.