Update: When using IE is shows up as "Posted by Mikkel on NaN"

I think this is a localization issue. I post-dated an article and everything worked just fine for me with Safari and FF--the date displayed as '8 hours from now', which seems correct. Once we implement #222, then this article shouldn't show up at all, but that's a post-2.5 feature.

Here's the raw HTML from the page:

<script type="text/javascript">document.write(get_local_time_for_date("Mon, 01 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT"));</script><noscript>on Mon, 01 Aug 2005 07:00:00 GMT</noscript>

So, I think what we're seeing is a locale issue--your locale calls UTC something other then UTC or GMT. Setting 'LANG=C' would probably fix this, but there's an easier way. For now, I'm going to make a minor change and remove the TZ name from the string that Rails generates--it's always going to be in UTC anyway, so I'm just going to say "GMT".

(In r475) Took timezone out of JS "days ago" string. Since we always send it in GMT/UTC, asking the system for the TZ name is redundant and apparently causes locale problems. (closes #235)

Only a comment:

You have to be sure, that the current locale, the server is running with, is set to C. I had the same problem above which locale set to something other than C and only some entries are displayed right. Exactly the entries, which first two digests were the same.

The javascript that displays the date is not localized

Milestone 4.2 deleted

We can't reproduce the bug, and as the code that generates the date has been changed long ago, we consider it as fixed