Date/time Views filter tries strotime() relative to Unix epoch

Creating a View to list content with a datetime field, filtered by date < today, caused no results to be displayed.

Problem/Motivation

Creating a View to list content with a datetime field, filtered by date < today, caused no results to be displayed.

The query I was doing:

WHERE (( (node_field_data.status = '1') AND (node_field_data.type IN ('event')) AND (DATE_FORMAT(node__field_date.field_date_value, '%Y-%m-%d\T%H:%i:%s') < DATE_FORMAT('1969-12-31T23:00:00', '%Y-%m-%d\T%H:%i:%s')) ))

Proposed resolution

Update views filter plugin for DateTime to always use the current request time.

Remaining tasks

• Determine if this is the intended functionality
• Review existing patch/make sure tests are correct

User interface changes

None.

API changes

None.

Data model changes

None.