Comments marked as "New" when edited [#2147477]

When someone with normal user permissions edits a comment, then the time stamp for the comment is changed and 'New' label is shown for other users.

When someone with elevated privileges (I don't know exactly which ones yet) updates a comment, the time stamp is NOT changed and no 'New' label shown.

Original report

For me case https://drupal.org/node/2068471#new has shown as New today, but not in past days and all other follow up comments are not new. This is date-wise impossible.

Screenshot: https://drupal.org/files/issues/2013-12-01_114347.png

Comment	File	Size	Author
#4	before-editing.png	51.13 KB	eliza411
#4	new-after-update.png	52.8 KB	eliza411
	2013-12-01_114347.png	27.05 KB	hass

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Comment #1

hass CreditAttribution: hass commented 9 December 2013 at 00:06

Issue summary:

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Test save

Comment #2

tvn CreditAttribution: tvn commented 8 December 2013 at 15:57

This happens when the comment was edited. Not sure if we want to 'fix' this or leave as is. It might be helpful to notify people that the comment changed.

Comment #3

hass CreditAttribution: hass commented 8 December 2013 at 19:16

Nope. The time and date is still the same. This means the comment was NOT edited by the user. That's why I reported it. Otherwise the comment would have a date 1. december, but it's not.

Comment #4

eliza411 CreditAttribution: eliza411 commented 8 December 2013 at 23:27

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new-after-update.png	52.8 KB
before-editing.png	51.13 KB

The date displayed on a comment is the Post date, and it doesn't change when an issue is edited. I'm not saying that's how it *should* work, since a "New" flag doesn't at all describe what's happened with the comment.

Before editing

After editing - date is unchanged

[edit: checking timestamp again]

Comment #5

hass CreditAttribution: hass commented 9 December 2013 at 00:12

This is not correct. See my comment #1 that I just saved half a minute ago. The comment date will be updated to the last comment save timestamp. Aside I'm not talking about the issue date only zhe comment date as you can see in the screenshot, too.

Comment #6

eliza411 CreditAttribution: eliza411 commented 9 December 2013 at 00:27

Testing "Posted" date on an edited comment when the comment is added using the full Issue update form. There is no issue summary change on this comment.

Comment #7

eliza411 CreditAttribution: eliza411 commented 9 December 2013 at 00:28

Issue summary:

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This comment was generated December 8 at 4:28 because the issue summary was updated and so resembles Comment #1. I expect that the timestamp for this edit may get updated like Comment #1.

Comment #8

eliza411 CreditAttribution: eliza411 commented 9 December 2013 at 00:38

I am also talking only about the comment date.

I can see that you're having a different experience than I am. Comment #1 DOES shows an updated time stamp exactly as you've described, but when I update comments, the time stamp is NOT updated.

Attempt 1 to get the timestamp of a comment to update

I posted the Comment #4 at December 8, 2013 at 3:27pm

December 8, 2013 at 4:19pm I clicked the edit link for comment #4, added the text [edit: checking timestamp] and clicked "Save"

Comment #4 was now flagged as "New" but continued to show the comment post time: 3:27, even after clearing the browser cache.

Attempt 2 to get the timestamp of a comment to update

I triggered an automatic comment creation by updating the main issue because that's the kind of comment I was seeing for Comment #1. When I updated the comment, it still didn't change the time stamp.

Next, I'm going to try to reproduce the updated time stamp behavior as a user with different permissions.