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I've found this in the documenation:

Dates and times are both formatted for the user’s preferred locale. They are displayed in the site’s timezone, however they get stored in UTC like all other dates in Craft.

That's fine.

I use this timezone: UTC+1 (CET) - Europe/Rome

As expected everything is saved in the database with an UTC offset of minus one hour exept the expiryDate in the craft_templatecaches table: the UTC offset is minus two hours.

Here is my code snippet:

{% set expiredNews = craft.entries.section('news').order('expiryDate')|first %}
{% set expiryDate = expiredNews.expiryDate %}

{% cache until expiryDate %}

Example:

expiryDate in entry: 2015-04-01 00:00:00

expiryDate in cache: 2015-03-31 22:00:00

Why is there an offset of two hours and what does that mean for cache invalidation?

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The above code example works.

Short and simple answer: daylight saving time (DST)

Standard time: -1 hour in database

Daylight saving time: -2 hours in database

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  • That's a workaround, no solution. Is it?
    – carlcs
    Mar 24, 2015 at 16:43
  • I'm not able to reproduce this locally. Using UTC+1 and the original template code and getting the proper 2015-03-26 10:00:00 in both craft_templatecaches and craft_entries->expiryDate column.
    – Brad Bell
    Mar 24, 2015 at 20:30
  • Oh my goodness, now I know why: daylight saving time
    – Christian Steger
    Mar 24, 2015 at 21:15
  • Haha... it's always something. :)
    – Brad Bell
    Mar 24, 2015 at 21:25

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