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Wait!, what? Wikipedia date?

Post by Gfamily » Thu Nov 21, 2019 7:26 pm

Happened to be looking at a wikipedia page for someone whose birthday is today, but the auto calculation seems to be out.
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I doubt she's wearing a "31 today" badge, anyway.
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Re: Wait!, what? Wikipedia date?

Post by geejaytee » Thu Nov 21, 2019 8:29 pm

Weirdly, I've just tried editing and previewing without any changes, and it updated to 32, when the original page shows 31. I've obviously not committed the edit as I haven't changed anything.

My thought was that it depended on the which TZ "Wikipedia" exists in, but it would now have to be ~20:30 before GMT, which wouldn't happen even with a fractally convoluted Date Line.

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Re: Wait!, what? Wikipedia date?

Post by Gfamily » Thu Nov 21, 2019 8:43 pm

Well, Bo Derek (born 20 Nov '58) is showing as still being 62 today.
But I've looked at two people born on 19 Nov, and one is showing the correct age, and the other is showing the 'year earlier' age.

Odd.
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Re: Wait!, what? Wikipedia date?

Post by dyqik » Thu Nov 21, 2019 10:05 pm

It's probably cached somewhere.

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Re: Wait!, what? Wikipedia date?

Post by Gfamily » Thu Nov 21, 2019 10:13 pm

dyqik wrote:
Thu Nov 21, 2019 10:05 pm
It's probably cached somewhere.
I tried a 'Ctrl+F5', but it didn't shift it.
I then 'published' the page as an edit (without having changed anything) and it's showing "age 32" now. However the 'mobile' page is still showing '31', so you're probably right.
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Re: Wait!, what? Wikipedia date?

Post by dyqik » Thu Nov 21, 2019 10:35 pm

Gfamily wrote:
Thu Nov 21, 2019 10:13 pm
dyqik wrote:
Thu Nov 21, 2019 10:05 pm
It's probably cached somewhere.
I tried a 'Ctrl+F5', but it didn't shift it.
I then 'published' the page as an edit (without having changed anything) and it's showing "age 32" now. However the 'mobile' page is still showing '31', so you're probably right.
Ctrl+F5 is just for your local cache. There's probably caching server-side for things like derived content.

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Re: Wait!, what? Wikipedia date?

Post by GeenDienst » Fri Nov 22, 2019 9:24 am

I thought they'd started a dating service. It would be great, you could edit them if they turned out to be horrible.
Just tell 'em I'm broke and don't come round here no more.

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