On 8 September 2016 at 21:54, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 September 2016 at 17:18, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 8 September 2016 at 01:59, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:51 PM Lefty Leverenz <leftylever...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is this a timezone problem?
>
> Yes.
>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Possibly. I tried changing my JIRA timezone to UTC+0, just in case, but it
>>> had no effect. I don't think JIRA stores the timezone with these dates, so
>>> it might be assumed to be midnight when reporter translates it to whatever
>>> it considers local time. If the local time reporter is translating it to is
>>> east of UTC+0, then that would make sense. It should probably parse the
>>> JIRA dates as UTC+0, and then display them as UTC+0, since there's no way
>>> for it to know the intended time zone from JIRA if JIRA isn't storing that
>>> (even if it does store it, the UI doesn't allow you to specify, so it's
>>> going to default to midnight).
>>>
>>
>> JIRA stores the dates as YYYY-MM-DD; no time at all. Or at least that
>> is the data that reporter.a.o sees.
>>
>> This is converted to seconds since the epoch, and assumes local time.
>> I think the TZ is UTC on reporter.a.o.
>>
>> The epoch time must be converted back again for display.
>> I suspect this is where the issue lies (given that r.a.o uses UTC)
>>
>> I see the following Accumulo dates:
>>
>> - 1.8.0: Tue Sep 06 2016
>> - 1.7.2: Wed Jun 22 2016
>> - 1.7.1: Fri Feb 26 2016
>>
>> which agree (for me) with the JIRA dates.
>
> However if I change my local timezone to EDT I see dates one day earlier.
>
>> I assume you are seeing one day earlier for each of those?
>> What is your local timezone?
>>
>> In which case it's just a case of finding where the epoch time is
>> converted for display and ensuring that UTC is used.
>>
>
> The dates are displayed using Javascript Date.toDateString() which
> uses the local timezone.
> I can fix that.

Should be OK now.

>>>
>>>> -- Lefty
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:19 PM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > > On 6 September 2016 at 23:38, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>> > > > Why does reporter use 1 day earlier than JIRA when I use the "Fetch
>>>> > > > releases from JIRA" feature?
>>>> > >
>>>> > > What exactly do you mean by that?
>>>> > >
>>>> >
>>>> > What I mean is that when I put the release date in JIRA as 06/Sep/2016,
>>>> and
>>>> > then use the sync feature in reporter.apache.org, the one in reporter
>>>> > shows
>>>> > Mon Sep 05 2016, which is one day earlier than what is stored in JIRA. It
>>>> > does this for all the releases.
>>>> >
>>>>

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