[TYPO3-core] RFC: Bug #4515: Date fields displayed wrong in TCEforms

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Michael Stucki schrieb:
> This is a SVN patch request.
> 
> Problem:
> Input fields with TCA setting "eval" => "date" and "readOnly" => 1 will 
> display a wrong date if they are empty.
> 
> Solution:
> If the input value is undefined (zero), display an empty string.
> 
> Branches: TYPO3_4-0 & Trunk

+1 from me too, but with some modifications:

I just don't agree with that part:
-                                               $value =
date($option,$itemValue);
+                                               $value =
date('d-m-Y',$itemValue);

Why are you not using $option anymore? I don't know where this
$config['format.']['option'] comes from, is it documented somewhere? Can
this be set through TCA? How?

And while you are at it, the same problem arises if the format is
datetime, time, timesec and year. So I would propose to simplify the
patch by doing right before the switch something like:

if (!$itemValue && in_array($format, array('date', 'datetime', 'time',
'timesec', 'year'))) {
   return '';
}

Cheers,
Ernesto