Re: How to edit dexterity types without needing to know about their behaviors

On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 10:18 +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> On 14 Mar 2014, at 09:40, ajung <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > johannes raggam wrote
> >> 
> >> i'll fix that, probably at the wine and beer sprint. but then you'll
> >> still always get UTC datetime values instead of localized ones, if you
> >> get the start/end attributes directly from the context.
> >> 
> >>> Consistency-is-king
> >>> Andreas
> >> 
> >> pragmatism is okay.
> >> johannes
> > 
> > I don't care about localized datetime values. Dates should always be stored
> > and manipulated using UTC in the same way as any we should deal (in theory)
> > with unicode strings internally. Localized datetime values and utf-8 encoded
> > strings are value for presentation purposes, not for processing purposes.
> 
> +infinity

read my mail and the code and you will see that datetimes are stored in
UTC.

the problem is that the widget passes a floating datetime - local
timezone, but not timezone information applied. therefore this behavior
setter/getter magic to convert it to UTC, relative to the timezone
identifier stored as attribute on the content object.


> 
> Storing timezone-aware times will always result in disaster.
> 
> W.
> 
> 
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