[TYPO3-core] RFC: #12652: Value Preview of empty timestamp shows "01-01-70 (-40 yrs) "

[Steffen Kamper]

Hi,

David Bruchmann schrieb:
> Hi Steffen,
> 
> the idea is not bad, I was angry about 1.1.1970 already too.
> Nevertheless the value zero should be usable as excactly the datetime it 
> was created for. Datetimes for whole days are created with 
> midnight-values so it's not unusual to have that *damned* zero.
> I propose to change the field-configuration in mySql to have no 
> zero-value as default inside.
> Else a timehole is produced where one second is left and handling only 
> with days one missing second snatches a whole day ;-)
> 


that's the reason why i used it only for date and not for datetime. The 
handling is different in tceforms.

The only hole we have for date is the date 1.1.1970, but we can live 
with that.

vg Steffen