[Neos] Neos DateTime handling

Adrian Föder adrian at foeder.de
Wed Mar 19 19:17:47 CET 2014


You all might know me as the "timezone addict", so yes: I fully agree in 
storing time as UTC and rendering it as appropriate.

In my own app I even fetch the user's time zone via JavaScript because 
this contains the system's time.

But still: store UTC!

Am 18.03.2014 22:11, schrieb Dominique Feyer:
> Intersting discussion on this topic on StackOverflow:
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10834665/how-can-i-handle-time-zones-in-my-webapp
>
> For my point of view, timezone is a user parameter (user preference or auto detection is an other story), but always storing in UTC make a lots of sense.
>
> My two cents ;)
>
> --
> Dominique Feyer
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>
> Le 18 mars 2014 à 21:30:04, Rens Admiraal (rens.admiraal at typo3.org) a écrit:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Today I played around with the datepicker so see how the time / datetime
> capabilities work. It seems to work pretty awesome, you can for example
> create a timepicker by using the following config:
>
> time:
> type: date
> ui:
> label: 'Some Time'
> inspector:
> editorOptions:
> format: 'h:ii'
> group: 'someGroup'
>
> Or date + time picker by using:
>
> dateAndTime:
> type: date
> ui:
> label: 'Some Date with Time'
> inspector:
> editorOptions:
> format: 'dd-mm-yyyy h:ii'
> group: 'someGroup'
>
>
> As you can see, just setting the format is enough. *BUT* we do have an
> issue here. As the original datepicker did only support dates we
> hardcoded the transfer format between the client and server in:
> 'yyyy-mm-dd'. This is done in the DateTimeEditor (js),
> ContentElementWrappingService (Neos) and NodeConverter (CR). This causes
> the time information to get lost on storage, so we need to fix that in
> some way.
>
> I played around with the code and come up with:
> https://review.typo3.org/#/q/status:open+branch:master+topic:datetime,n,z
>
> I tried to use the \DateTime::ISO8601 constant, but that one adds an
> offset which causes troubles on the client side at the moment. So I used
> the ISO8601 format without offset.
>
> But before digging too deep it might make sense to step back a little
> and decide how we want to handle timezone differences between server and
> client and so on.
>
> Do you have any thoughts on that?
>
> Greetz,
> Rens
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