[TYPO3-dev] Putting the time into starttime

[Malte Jansen]

Benjamin Mack schrieb:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I was chatting today about the fields "starttime" / "endtime". This was 
> also a discussion on the Mailing list.
> 
> The issue is this: Although the DB field is a timestamp, in the BE forms 
> only the date can be entered. If you install date2cal or similar, you 
> can enter the hours as well.
> 
> But if we'd consider time, we'd also need to discuss how the cache 
> behaves for it. I'm not really in the loop to figure this out on my own.
> 
> So, I am thinking about this:
> * Have a installer-time option to activate "time" on starttime / 
> endtime, but have it disabled in general since only a few people will 
> actually need it.
> * If time is activated, we'd need to figure out the cache issues, and I 
> hope of help from you guys.
> 
> What do you think about the issues? Please also comment on how and when 
> you use the starttime and endtime feature, so we know how many people 
> want to have this sorted out.
> 

I don't know how the cache work in details.

But normally the cache is cleared at midnight. So the time would not work.
So there must be some kind of checking, wheater the starttime/endtime is 
set and the cache must be cleared on the next request of the page/content.


Cheers,

Malte