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

[Steffen Kamper]

"Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]" <dmitry at typo3.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:mailman.1.1203953565.13653.typo3-team-core at lists.netfielders.de...
> Hi!
>
> Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:
>> Where are you seeing this? We always subtract the TZoffset in JavaScript 
>> (using "-xxx.getTimezoneOffset()*60"). So the date the client sends to 
>> the server should be UTC.
>
> May be it should but it does not. getTimezoneOffset() returns negative 
> value for positive time zones. I.e. it returns -2 for UTC+2. So 
> substracting it you add this value to local time thus getting 
> UTC+2*TZoffset. Easy to see with FireBug.
>

this.lastDate - theTime.getTimezoneOffset()

UTC +2 :  theTime.getTimezoneOffset() = -120

so UTC - - 120 = UTC + 120

vg  Steffen