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

[Michael Stucki]

Hi Martin,

I already committed my change before I found this mail. For some reason the
thread was broken here...

If you find the change important, can you please propose a patch for it?

Thanks!
- michael

> Yes, but a) that's not the code for "eval"/"readOnly" but "none"/"format"
> (see my other post) and b) it's currently stated in the TCA docs that the
> format is d-m-Y.
> 
> Of course it would make sense to use the date setting but then it should
> be improved and the TCA restriced. So instead of allwing date/strftime
> formats in the TCA we would use generic terms like date, shortdate,
> longdate, time,
>   longtime, etc to describe the output. This would give the site admin the
> power to choose the date/time format of his locale.
> 
> So I propose to remove the complex date formats form "none"/"format" in
> 4.0.3. They were not documented, so they don't exist ;-) Instead of
> 'd-m-Y' it should use the config for dates.
> 
> In 4.1 we deprecate the time formats for eval and use also the config for
> dates. The date and time settings are improved to cover the types
> mentioned above.
> 
> See also my posting "time/date display in FE (and BE)" on 24.8.06
> 
> Masi

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