Avoid using the client clock for anything about twinkle HOT 6 CLOSED

When you request a page for later editing from the api, you already get the starttimestamp in UTC. Can't that be reused ?

Indeed. Opened a PR for reusing this wherever possible.

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When you request a page for later editing from the api, you already get the starttimestamp in UTC. Can't that be reused ?

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Of course, very good! I kept thinking it needed another request to expand #time or something.

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What about, at least of section headers and adding the time to a page, using substituted time parser functions? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Other_variables_by_type

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Relevant SO discussion

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What about, at least of section headers and adding the time to a page, using substituted time parser functions? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Magic_words#Other_variables_by_type

In all the places where we need to add time to a page (CSD/PROD userspace logging and user talk page warning), we also need to check whether the section header of the current month is already there, so we must have the time beforehand.

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