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 out to be the timestamp of when that file was superseded by a subsequent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 version was superseded and an "oi_timestamp" of when that version was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
>
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