Making Standard formatting is the key, Though at the client end we can always display the data however we want. It's not going to be a problem at all.
On Mon, May 4, 2020 at 9:04 AM James Dailey <[email protected]> wrote: > @Michael Vorburger <[email protected]> > > +1 for your change. > Having dealt with date issues in other banking applications, I have come > to appreciate the ISO-8601 format. If only everyone used the same date > format is a common lament. > > I certainly hope no Mifos apps are using the US date standard. But, if > they are, we should certainly modify them, rather than maintain a > non-standard output in the APIs. my 2 cents. > > > > > On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 4:04 PM Michael Vorburger <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> If you have a particular interest in the fascinating topic of how to >> represent dates in JSON responses of REST APIs such as Fineract's, and >> therefore have opinions about the code change proposed in >> https://github.com/apache/fineract/pull/816 which modifies the format in >> which certain dates are returned by the API in an incompatible way, then >> please read https://jira.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-926 for full >> background, and comment either directly in that JIRA, or on this thread. >> >> The short version is that I'm proposing that certain date fields in >> Fineract's JSON API (those that internally come from java.util.Date >> instances, only) be formatted in ISO-8601 format e.g. >> "2011-12-03T10:15:30Z" instead of as e.g. "May 3, 2020 10:51:19 PM", as >> they are currently. If this could break any of your clients interpreting >> such Date fields, please shout now. >> >> NB that this this will NOT at all affect other date fields, such as those >> currently already formatted as e.g. "[2020, 05, 04]" (which internally come >> from org.joda.time.LocalDate instances). >> >> Tx, >> M. >> _______________________ >> Michael Vorburger >> http://www.vorburger.ch >> > -- Saransh Sharma *Research Partner* *Muellner Internet Pvt Ltd * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The idea of separation of me and you is amazing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Company Website <https://www.muellners.com/> **Company Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/company/muellners> *Company Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/muellners> This mail is governed by Muellner® Internet Private Limited's IT policy. The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. All messages sent to and from this e-mail address may be monitored as permitted by applicable law and regulations to ensure compliance with our internal policies and to protect our business. E-mails are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by e-mail.
