[TYPO3-dev] TCA date without timezone concideration?

[Søren Schaffstein]

Hi,

Why don't you just add the GMT-timeadjustment variable instead of a 
fixed 12 hours? So it will work with all timezone settings....

Søren

Ries van Twisk wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I insert a date like this while converting data form a other database 
> into a:
>    $lastVisitDate = mktime(0, 0, 0, $review['en']['DateMonthLastVisit'], 
> $review['en']['DateDayLastVisit'], $review['en']['DateYearLastVisit']);
> 
> If the valued for de dates are set to:
> day : 20
> Month: 7
> Year:2005
> 
> Then in the backend this is changed to: 2005-7-19.
> My computers TZ and my servers TZ is both set th GMT-5.
> 
> Can I specify to typo3 into my TCA to handle some dates without timezone 
> concideration?
> 
> I am in the above case not interesed when a event happend exacly (12 at 
> night), but when a event happend locally.
> This means 20-7-2006 is for everybody around the globe the same date. 
> Also for BE editors and I can't have TZ conciderations.
> 
> BTW: I can temporarly solve it like this:
>    $lastVisitDate = mktime(12, 0, 0, 
> $review['en']['DateMonthLastVisit'], $review['en']['DateDayLastVisit'], 
> $review['en']['DateYearLastVisit']);
> By simply adding 12 hours to the date... But I don't fine that a 
> satisfying solution.
> 
> Ries
> 
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