TYPO3 Core

If you want the current date inserted, just type "d" (without the quotes) in this field. To me, the "current date + 1" makes sense under some circumstances, for example for setting the enddate of the page. There, a date of today would be senseless. It all depends on where the date is needed, and if you want to insert the current date, I suggest using d as described above.
Greets, Sebastian

I entered this bug report not because it is not possible to get today's date but because of the underlying usability problem: The users of my Typo3 installation do this when they want to enter today's date:

1. They see that no date is entered.
2. They click on the checkbox; a date is entered
3. They expect that this is today's date. have a cursory look at the date field and see what they want to see instead of what is really there.

I agree that there may be cases where tomorrow's date may make sense as a default, but when a date is automatically inserted, I'd expect it to be the date of "now".

After rethinking about the matter I think you are right. Currently, I have no time for looking at this, but a patch is welcome :-)
Greets, Sebastian

Hi,
I've added a patch which disables this feature or bug or whatever you want to call it. ;-)

Greets,
Thomas

Thomas, thanks for the patch. I've just attached a slightly cleaned-up version of your patch that also changes the variable name so that it actually reflects the new behavior.

I've uploaded a new patch that fixes a misspelling ("MidNight" must spell "Midnight").

The patch is tested and fixes the bug.

Fixed in CVS.