[TYPO3-50-general] Dates outside Unix Timestamp

[Martin Kutschker]

Helmut Hummel schrieb:
> Hi Karsten,
> 
> Karsten Dambekalns schrieb:
>> Aside from dates outside that range that format is missing timezone
>> information. So someone adds such a date in New York, and then it is to
>> be displayed to someone in Paris. What happens?
> 
> If I rember the discussion in core list right, the way to go is: saving
> the date in timezone of the server and always show (calculate) it in
> timezone of the client(s).

Not quite. Storing the date in the TZ of the server is what legacy TYPO3 
implicitly does. But TYPO3 should store all dates in UTC.

What was discussed for 4.2 was to have a configration switch that either 
enforces the server TZ or UTC for storage. The latter being the default 
for new installations.

Masi