added the timezone offset to the timestamps in the html output and hopefully fixed the related "timeago" issue

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/askbot/templatetags/extra_filters_jinja.py b/askbot/templatetags/extra_filters_jinja.py
index 8083657d..b03e4a89 100644
--- a/askbot/templatetags/extra_filters_jinja.py
+++ b/askbot/templatetags/extra_filters_jinja.py
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import datetime
+import pytz
 import re
 import time
 import urllib
@@ -35,6 +36,16 @@ def absolutize_urls_func(text):
     return url_re4.sub(replacement, text)
 absolutize_urls = register.filter(absolutize_urls_func)
 
+TIMEZONE_STR = pytz.timezone(
+                    django_settings.TIME_ZONE
+                ).localize(
+                    datetime.datetime.now()
+                ).strftime('%z')
+
+@register.filter
+def add_tz_offset(datetime_object):
+    return str(datetime_object) + ' ' + TIMEZONE_STR
+
 @register.filter
 def strip_path(url):
     """removes path part of the url"""