I have the impression that was an old bug which got fixed sometime in the last couple years -- it was accidentally using the current time instead of the original upload time. But there will of course be thousands of existing old-version files with the "wrong" prefixes stuck on their filenames...
-- brion On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Daren Welsh <[email protected]> wrote: > In the version history of an image (or any attached file in MediaWiki), the > page displays "Date/Time" with a link to that version. The timestamp > displayed is the upload timestamp of that version. If you look closely, you > can see that the real filename includes a different timestamp. This turns > out to be the timestamp of when that file was superseded by a subsequent > version. > > I have looked in the database tables and can see that in the oldimage > table, each row has an "oi_archive_name" with the timestamp of when that > version was superseded and an "oi_timestamp" of when that version was > actually uploaded. > > Is there a reason to name the old versions of the files with the > superseding timestamp instead of the upload timestamp? It seems to me that > the timestamp of when that version was uploaded is more relevant. > > Daren > > > -- > __________________ > http://enterprisemediawiki.org > http://mixcloud.com/darenwelsh > http://www.beatportfolio.com > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
