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

[Steffen Kamper]

"Martin Kutschker" <Martin.Kutschker at n0spam-blackbox.net> schrieb im 
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> Dmitry Dulepov [typo3] schrieb:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Martin Kutschker wrote:
>>> This patch fixes the TCEforms part. The server should now send UTC time 
>>> to the client.
>>
>> What value will be (1) shown in BE and (2) stored in the database? If it 
>> is UTC, it still breaks extensions.
>
> In the BE the time stays as entered, but in the DB it seems to be the TZ 
> of the client !?!? I have fiddled with my TZ setting of Windows and 
> restarted FF everytime. Or do I have to reboot?
>
> I would like to here a word from Ernesto would his original intentions 
> were.
>
> Masi

As it seems Ernesto isn't available atm please have a look in this list to 
the post of Ernesto

Re: [TYPO3-core] RFC: Bug #1697: Datetime input fields and timezone shift 
bug: REMINDER
from 12.Oct 2007

There you see the intention:
- send UTC to the server
- patch in tceforms uses gmmktime instead of mktime to use UTC + server 
timezone offset

vg  Steffen