Time and date picker adjusts time based on timezone about twill HOT 3 CLOSED

It's probably because in DatePicker.vue on line 152 date-fns.parse is called with date + 'Z' and format + 'X' so the parsed value would be offset. Removing the Z (and since it's not needed anymore, also the X from format) seems to resolve the issue.

Edit: Had to also edit flatpickr format on line 135 to dateFormat: self.enableTime ? 'Y-m-d H:i' : 'Y-m-d' to completely resolve the problem.

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The offset is intended to improve the user experience. Dates should always be stored in UTC in the database, but you don't want your users to have to do mental gymnastics with timezones when using date and time pickers in the CMS.

Are you reporting a bug with this implementation, or is it more that you were looking to disable that behavior?

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To be honest, at the point when I opened this issue I was completely oblivious to the fact that it was good practice to store UTC dates in the DB - answering your question - it's not a bug if you followed best practices, so we might as well close this. But still it would be nice to be able to store and display datetime values independently from timezones. Do you have an idea if it would be possible currently?

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