[TYPO3-core] RFC #7626: Date/time handling is completely broken in 4.2

[Martin Kutschker]

Martin Kutschker schrieb:
> Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] schrieb:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Martin Kutschker wrote:
>>
>>> Otherwise the problem seems to be that the idea was to make sure UTC 
>>> is sent from and to the server. I don't see why this cannot be fixed 
>>> as well. It's "just a matter of debugging". :-)
>>
>> Can you do it? If yes, I am willing to test the patch. If no, we have 
>> to solve it the other way.
> 
> This patch fixes the TCEforms part. The server should now send UTC time 
> to the client.
> 
> I didn't fiddle with the JS code, because of the complex code. Too much 
> storing times in local and global variables to understand in such a 
> short time. But to me it seems that is just unnecessarly complex in 
> getting the UTC time of a date object.
> 
> Anyway, I have set my Windows PC to +2 and I'm getting correct results 
> in the BE for my +1 server using FF.

I'm confused. If the client send UTC there must be a conversion on the 
server side that translate UTC to local time, but there isn't. Odd.

Masi