Timezone Handling Fix – In Progress#302
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Normalize blog date handling to UTC and accept client timezone/date inputs. Replaced inline now() comparisons with toUTC(now()) across Blog and News controllers to ensure consistent UTC-based filtering. On blog create/update: set postCreatedDate, createdAt, updatedAt to UTC, only set publishedAt when a client-supplied date is provided, and convert client ISO datetime strings to UTC via a new toSafeUTC helper. Added toSafeUTC to global functions (parses ISO strings and falls back to current UTC). Frontend create view now injects the user's timezone and sends postCreatedDate (ISO) and userTimezone with HTMX submissions. Adjusted show view check to compare publishedAt against toUTC(now()). These changes prevent timezone-related scheduling/visibility bugs and ensure server-side times are stored/compared in UTC.
Convert blog and comment datetime handling to UTC and improve timezone handling. Replaced Now() comparisons with toUTC(Now()) in blog queries and counts to ensure correct UTC-based filtering; added toUTC and toSafeUTC helpers in global functions (DST-aware Java Calendar offset, robust ISO parsing with fallbacks). Normalize publishedAt/postCreatedDate when creating/updating posts and comments (use toSafeUTC/toUTC). Add data-utc attributes to view date elements for client-side handling. Also includes small whitespace/validation cleanups.
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Summary
Working on standardizing blog date handling. Current implementation persists dates in UTC and attempts to render in the user’s local timezone.
Known Issues / TODO
datetime-localinputs risk double conversion on edit.Status