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

[Ingo Renner]

Steffen Kamper wrote:

> Another simple example: There is a news item with a start date. Now an 
> editor in US sets the startdate to 10:00 am. What do you expect in germany, 
> when will the news item appear?

depends on where the editor is in the U.S. ... the news should pop up at 
15 - 18 o'clock german time


> So storing UTC is the first important step to be able to show it in differnt 
> TZ's - this does the patch.

that is not required if you use that variable:

> Also remember that there is a Conf-Var, that was never used: 
> $TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SYS']['serverTimeZone']
> This is a possibility to read the server TZ.

to calculate everything else ...



Ingo