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

[Martin Kutschker]

Steffen Kamper schrieb:
> 
> my intention was to show the time in BE in servers timezone to prevent 
> double conversion.

I thought we send the time back to the server in UTC? Where would be the 
  double conversion.

> this can be enhanced by "Show dates in x timezone", but until this isn't 
> done i used servers timezone.
> 
> I think we first need a correct handling and then we can enhance display 
> modes.

Fine with me. If the server sends (ie generates an approriate JS 
variable to hold) the required offset everything should be fine - except 
for one option: "use client TZ". The server doesn't knows it and this is 
the only case where the client defines it.

Idea: if the JS variable that holds the TZ is NULL (or not present) then 
it will be filled with the client's offset.

With an implementation like that we're open for all kind of configurations.

Masi