Andrew,
I understand what the method does. The point I'm trying to make is this: It is not needed and it
provides a way to introduce inconsistent data into the project.
I understand the method solves a problem for a particular client, but it's not a good thing to
include in the project.
There is a discussion on Jira about this:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-1361
-Adrian
Andrew Zeneski wrote:
This method is to use an int offset to adjust the timestamp, without a
locale or timezone. That's it. No hidden meanings here. It uses Integer
instead of int since Freemarker doesn't wrap primitives.
On Oct 25, 2007, at 7:05 PM, Adrian Crum wrote:
Andrew Zeneski wrote:
The predicted results will be a timestamp adjusted with with the
specific amount specified, without a timezone available. Just a
helper method.
I used it on a system which is set to GMT and requires dates be
displayed in the customer facing in the customer's timezone. The
timezone is read as an offset (in javascript) and then adjusted on
the fly as needed. There is no TimeZone object available, all we
know is how many minutes off GMT.
Andrew
The commit log mentions calling this from Freemarker. There are
Locale and TimeZone objects in the Freemarker context. In addition,
I'm pretty sure that no matter where you are in the code execution
path, you have access to Locale and TimeZone objects.
-Adrian
