[TYPO3-dev] Datetime bug in 4.2

[Martin Kutschker]

Martin Kutschker schrieb:
> Steffen Kamper schrieb:
>> "Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]" <dmitry at typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
>> news:mailman.1.1203671122.3766.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> Steffen Kamper wrote:
>>>> The idea was another. Dates should be displayed (BE) in the server 
>>>> timezone (or the timezone you configure for it). To achieve that 
>>>> times has to be stored in UTC and calculated by offset when display.
>>>> I think this whole handling is correct but just unfinished, eg there 
>>>> is no display which timezone is relevant.
>>> Hey, and how many extension developers take that into account? I do 
>>> not remember announcing such thing to the community. Most extensions 
>>> just use time()!
>>>
>> correct. That's why i said it's unfinished ;-)
> 
> That task has not been begun at all! If it were all time() etc fuctions 
> in the Core had to be replaced by appropriate wrappers. See the archives 
> for a proposal of mine.

And only now I recall that there was a second part (which could be 
implemented indepenently from the wrapper part). This one required the time 
zone of the user to be stored into the session. The idea was that if the 
server knows the TZ of the client it can display dates/times accordingly 
(for lists in BE and FE).

I don't have the time for that. I can only come up with SYS[useUTC] "for 
storage and in logs".

Masi