[Typo3-dev] utc_date/utc_time field please for 4.0

[Elmar Hinz]

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Alexander Langer schrieb:
> Elmar Hinz schrieb:
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>> In what time do you think are all those unix timestamps in the tables?
>> 1.) UTC is already the standard. So nothing to do here.
> 
> 
> Yes, Elmar, but unfortunately currently the "integer" that is saved for
> datetime's is currently calculated from within Javascript on the client
> computer, and then transferred as an integer to the server.  So
> unfortunately when people enter "2005-12-07 10:00" from different
> timezones, they have different dates in the database.

Well that is the unclean point than. You can never be sure that the
client will do a clean calculation. So it needs to be calculated on the
servers site. The ser


>> I think you better reconfigure your OS if you don't have them in UTC.
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> 
> [other unrelated stuff about L parameter and frontend output]

If you don't see the relation, it doesn't mean that it is unrealated. :-)

And that is probalbly the reason why you think you will need a timezone
flag in TCA. UTC is universial. Everywhere.


Elmar


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