[Typo3] Timezones and Dates in the Extended Calendar

[Justin Patrin]

On 10/12/05, Christopher <bedlamhotel at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi,
>
> On 12/10/05, Justin Patrin <papercrane at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm using the Extended Calendar plugin and have entered some events in
> > the Backend. They display just fine there with the correct dates and
> > times. However, int he Frontend they have 7 hours added to the times.
> > I've tried changing the serverTimeZone setting in localconf.php to
> > various values and have tried installing the timezone extension and
> > setting that various ways. Neither of those changed anything.
> >
> > This is on FreeBSD running Apache. The TZ environment var isn't set.
> > date() and time() in one of my own scripts displays in GMT. I've
> > noticed that the start_date and end_date in the DB have 7 hours added
> > to the days. So if 2005-10-02 is entered as the start_date the DB has
> > the timestamp for 2005-10-02 07:00:00. Everything still displays fine
> > in the backend, though. I really have no idea how or why TYPO3 is
> > doing this.
>
> I don't think Typo3 _is_ doing it, although I was unable to solve the
> problem with putenv() either. But since extended calendar uses TS for
> _everything_, you can solve this problem with a bit of TS wizardry.
> Here's my post to the list from last August detailing how I solved
> this problem. Note that I only needed to do this for the starting
> times of events; I have no idea if this solution will work with all
> date operations in the extension:
>
> http://lists.netfielders.de/pipermail/typo3-english/2005-August/010263.html
>

Yes, I saw that actually.

Ugh. That seems like a horrible hack. I ended up "fixing" it by adding
some simple code to class.tx_calendar_pi1.php. Where it sets
$row['event_start'] and $row['event_end'] I added "- 7 * 60 * 60".
This is, of course, not a real solution, but it's much simpler than
mucking about in TS (especially as cimplicated as what I see in your
post). Not to belittle your work, but I'd rather not have that
complicated of a hack for something which should be so simple.

Anyone else have any ideas? This either has to be TYPO3 or PHP doing
this and I'm pretty sure it's TYPO3. PHP certainly isn't going to take
a date sent via a form an change it to be 7 hours later by itself.

--
Justin Patrin