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[Stefan Rijnhart <stefan@xxxxxxxx>]

On 01/10/2013 07:40 PM, Mario Arias wrote:
> At least for date fields, consensus was that system should record the 
> date as seen by the user creating the record, using the new 
> "context_today" method...
> http://openerp-expert-framework.71550.n3.nabble.com/Bug-925361-Re-6-1-date-values-that-are-initialized-as-defaults-may-appear-as-quot-off-by-one-day-quoe-td3741270.html
>
>
> That is, if someone on India creates an invoice on 1/10/2013 at 8am 
> his time, someone in America (12 hours behind in time zone) will see 
> in that moment the invoice as created in the future...  and that is 
> good and expected...
>
>
> Problem is that most addons are still missing this fix.  You can check 
> bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-addons/+bug/1073022


The suggested fix for this problem is an ugly workaround that would 
actually work in a lot more cases if it was put in the context_today() 
method itself.

The background problem is that the context is not passed on to the 
workflow and the problem with fixing that is that not all methods that 
are called from the workflow anticipate the context argument. Passing 
the context argument could break a lot of things but now, at the 
beginning of the cycle for 7.1 would actually be a great time to update 
Olivier Dony's fix and merge it.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/openobject-server/+bug/949516

Cheers,
Stefan.