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

[Dmitry Dulepov [typo3]]

Hi!

Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:
> Your first message stated that on each save the time increases by 
> "offset-difference" on client side, whereas I have never been able to 
> reproduce that. In my scenarios on each save the time always increases 
> the TZ offset to UTC on SERVER-side. Test it by yourself:

Correction accepted. I could mix up these two zones after 8 hours of testing and debugging on two servers.

> So with that reasoning I think that the tcemain-fix should do it, as it 
> solves the problem here. Check?

I think it should solve the problem, yes.

The only thing that remains, is using getUTC to get local time back (to correct getTimezoneoffset() addition). While it gives correct numbers, I think at least a comment should be put there that these functions are not used for their direct purpose.

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