[TYPO3-dev] ADOdb extended dates prototype

[Christoph Koehler]

Hey,

Here is my idea. To be consistent with the approach that would work for  
extensions and server side dates, namely ADOdb time, I believe it needs to  
be used when entering dates, too. Client side would be faster, but  
ultimately there could be problems with early dates due to the switch to  
the Gregorian calendar and maybe others.
My proposal is this: The reason it's so slow is the inclusion of init.php.  
I can work around that and make it fast. Benchmarks showed that requests  
without including init.php were about 200ms for the first, and 20ms for  
subsequent requests, which is very reasonable compared to over 1000ms it  
takes now for each request.
My solution would also take care of timezones in that it would be  
converted to GMT during transmit and back to server time before saving,  
similar to the patch you linked to, if I understand correctly. I would  
take the timezone from the client, getting rid of the config field, while  
at the same time keeping the possibility to configure your own desired  
date format for date entry and output in all the forms, consistently. That  
has been a complaint I have heard before from clients and it really  
doesn't add any problems.
That would mean your patch will not be needed. I heard you guys thought it  
through very thoroughly, so I want to be sure I get everything right.
By the time you read this I probably have a new version of extdates  
already released for you guys to consider, I just wanted to post this  
anyway.

Christoph