[TYPO3-core] RFC #8522: Bug: Datetime shifts on copy and localize (timezone related)

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Ingo Renner wrote: on 02.06.2008 10:24:
> Ernesto Baschny [cron IT] wrote:
> 
>> Solution:
>> Attached patch. Thanks to lee perry for the original bug report.
> 
> Ernesto, as pointed out before on this list this is not a good 
> description of the solution. What does the patch do exactly to resolve 
> the issue?

Ingo, I don't know what you are refering to. Please just read the 
original RFC. For your ease, here is the relevant quote:

> Notes:
> The problem comes from the fact that TCEmain "checkValue"
 > transformations were being applied on already transformed data (from
 > the database) even in case of a copy (which is also used on
 > "localize"). Until now there was no problem, because all
 > checkValue transformation would do no harm on already transformed
 > input (e.g. trim on trimmed string does nothing, "upper" on already
 > upper cased string is harmless, etc), but it turned out to be a
 > problem on the transformation needed for datetime fields (shifting
 > the INPUT coming from the client, which is expected as UTC to
 > server-TZ timestamp).
> 
> So the solution is not to apply any checkValue in case of COPY or
 > LOCALIZE (which uses COPY), which is what the patch does.

I don't see many other explaining their patches in more detail than 
that, as you can also simply read the patch and see what it does.

Cheers,
Ernesto