Four templates, one layout. Two of them — the maintenance announcement and its
cancellation — still wore Laravel's markdown component, which brings its own
logo, its own button and its own footer: the product was sending mail that
looked like two different companies, one of which was the framework.
New: an order confirmation, sent when the payment lands rather than when
provisioning finishes. Those are minutes apart at best and can be much longer,
and somebody who has just been charged and heard nothing assumes the worst
about both the charge and the product. It deliberately promises no time for the
cloud itself — provisioning takes what it takes, CloudReady announces the end,
and a promised minute that slips is worse than no promise. Queued after the
transaction, never inside it, and never allowed to fail the webhook: Stripe
retries anything that is not a 2xx, and a retry would re-enter provisioning
over a mail server having a bad minute.
The finished-cloud mail now names what was actually built — address, plan,
storage, location — because somebody who ordered a fortnight ago is checking it
against what they bought, and that is a comparison rather than a sentence. Still
no credential in it.
Two tests earn their place. One holds every template on the shared layout, so a
new one written in a hurry cannot copy-paste its way back to the framework's.
The other proves the finished-cloud mail carries no password — asserted against
the data the mail is given and the HTML it renders, not against the template's
source, because the first version of that test tripped over the word in a
comment and would have passed a template that leaked the value through a
variable. It tested the prose, not the mail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The console announced an update for "spätestens um 15:21" while the clock on
the wall said 17:21. Not a formatting slip in one string: fourteen views and
four components printed database values straight out, so every absolute time in
the product was two hours out all summer and one hour out all winter.
Two of those views looked as though they had handled it. They called
->timezone(config('app.timezone'))
which reads like "convert to local time" and, app.timezone being the STORAGE
zone that must stay UTC, converts to UTC — a no-op wearing the costume of a
fix, which is worse than no call at all because it stops the next person
looking. That exact string is now banned by test.
Worse than the labels were two FORMS. Maintenance windows and plan versions
filled their datetime-local fields from UTC and parsed what came back as UTC. A
datetime-local field carries no offset — it is the digits a person reads off
their own clock — so an operator typing 21:00 scheduled a window for 23:00
their time, and nothing anywhere said so. App\Support\LocalTime now holds
toField() and fromField() side by side, because getting one end right is not
half a fix, it is a fresh bug.
The mechanism is one Carbon macro, ->local(). It copies before converting:
Illuminate\Support\Carbon is mutable, so without that, rendering a timestamp
would rewrite the model attribute as a side effect and anything comparing or
saving it afterwards would be an hour or two out. Both Carbon classes get the
same body — Carbon keeps macros in one global table, so the second registration
replaces the first for every Carbon class, and two different bodies meant the
immutable version, safe for itself, silently became the mutable one's
implementation too. My own test caught that.
The existing tests had not caught any of this because they built their expected
values with the same wrong call the views used — a test that recomputes the
implementation asserts nothing. They now assert the wall clock, and the queued
update additionally asserts that the UTC time is NOT shown.
Recorded as R19 in CLAUDE.md and enforced by tests/Feature/DisplayTimezoneTest:
no Blade or Livewire component may format an absolute time without ->local(),
the UTC no-op is banned, storage stays UTC, both sides of the DST boundary are
checked, ->local() must not mutate, and a form field must round-trip to the
same instant.
APP_DISPLAY_TIMEZONE, default Europe/Vienna. 615 tests.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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