Drupal saves and render Date field in certain way. However the way it does, is not very transparent looking at the available documentation. This becomes critical when we have time sensitive fields example Event Date and Time.
During content save Drupal will store Date field in UTC format, the date input by user is considered to be in timezone user belongs to at the time of saving.
During content render Drupal will convert it to viewer's user account timezone in case of logged in user, else in site default time zone in case of anonymous user.
While this works most of the times, however in case where content editor has to create multi geographical data belonging to different timezone it becomes erratic in nature and hard to understand for editor.
1. Add a Date and Time Field in Drupal.
2. The process of Drupal storing and rendering date field is missing.
Improve documentation to explain Drupal way of maintaining the date, so site builders take more aware decisions.
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datetime.module
A documentation change is requested elsewhere. For Drupal core (and possibly other projects), once the change has been committed, this status should be recorded in a change record node.
Hi @arpitr,
I've updated the help text, please review.
@arunsahijpal I'd wait for discussion before taking the exact suggestion and implementing
Thanks @smustgrave, @arunsahijpal intend here is to bring this to discussion to broader group in community.