[TYPO3-dev] Wrong timezone handling

[Vladimir Podkovanov]

Dmitry Dulepov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Vladimir Podkovanov wrote:
>> Why it is not fixible? Present code violates proper handling of timezone
>> coz of incorrect signs (there is no any sense in calculating UTC+TZ+TZ
>> as it is working now). I've reported this bug and ask question here only
>> to find out if there is any newer rules on timezone than I've quoted
>> before.
> 
> If I remember correctly, "+TZ+TZ" was made for some reason. I do not remember details but they were discussed.
> 

Well, would be nice if you point me to that discussion.
That I've found so far that there is rev. 4628 commited to trunk 4 
months ago with explanation how it should work:

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:
 > Notes:
 > Since TYPO3 4.2 we changed the handling of timezone: client converts to
 > UTC before sending form data to server. Server converts from UTC to
 > server-timezone before storing into database. This solved a lots of
 > issues regarding server standing on different timezones than the client,
 > but introduced some minor issues, from which hopefully the last two were
 > fixed with this patch.

but it is not working that way now.