The starttimestamp is returned when you query prop=info&intoken=edit. Note the returned timestamp should always be in UTC, formatted in ISO 8601 format (e.g. "2014-02-26T15:01:37Z").
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Petr Bena <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am already doing that but I need to resolve conflict in new page. > > There is no talk page for a user. I am sending a warning to this user. > If some other user with faster internet write that talk page faster > than me, I will overwrite it effectively deleting his message (because > there is no base revision for non-existent page). > > In fact it's even worse. I am using new section for the warning and in > this scenario, result is that we both send the warning of same level > in same moment for 2 different edits. Which produces > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61933 > > On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Jeremy Baron <jer...@tuxmachine.com> > wrote: > > On Feb 26, 2014 9:14 AM, "Petr Bena" <benap...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> How do you get current wiki time, so that you can either calculate the > >> timezone or use the time? > > > > How about using basetimestamp instead? > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php says: > >> basetimestamp - Timestamp of the base revision (obtained through > > prop=revisions&rvprop=timestamp). Used to detect edit conflicts; leave > > unset to ignore conflicts > >> > >> starttimestamp - Timestamp when you obtained the edit token. Used to > > detect edit conflicts; leave unset to ignore conflicts > > > > -Jeremy > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikitech-l mailing list > > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > -- Brad Jorsch (Anomie) Software Engineer Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
