[TYPO3-core] RFC: Bug #1697: Datetime input fields and timezone shift bug

[Martin Kutschker]

Steffen Kamper schrieb:
> "Ingo Renner" <ingo at typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
> news:mailman.1.1192881462.27423.typo3-team-core at lists.netfielders.de...
>> Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:
>>
>>> Problem:
>>> Editing date, datetime, time and timesec fields in BE when you have an
>>> offset between your clients timezone and the server timezone leads to
>>> wrong information being stored.
>> What's the intended behavior?
>>
>> Ingo
>>
> 
> Hi Ingo,
> 
> intended behavior is date/time entering without client calculating of local 
> time. Best would be to have all date/time-values in UTC to decide which 
> local time to be displayed..
> Best example is a calendar, where entries are made from different timezones. 
> So the JS is calculating the time with the client local time.

I don't understand. The time displayed should be in the clients local 
time. OTOH the time stored should be independent from the clients time 
zone. Currently it is stored in the servers time zone, while UTC would 
have been a better choice.

So what does the patch?

Masi