I wanted to pass on the answer I received to my question:
"Worldwide time zones are all established relative to Coordinated
Universal Time (UTC), which used be called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).
All time zones are designated by letters A-Z with Z assigned to the
baseline time zone of UTC/GMT. Hence UTC/GMT is often referred to as "Z"
or Zulu time since Zulu is the phonetic alphabet word for Z. When you
see a time listed in the format of 12:00Z it's telling you that it's in
the Z time zone. The following link shows the worldwide time zones."
http://www.worldtimezone.com/
So apparently DSpace uses UTC/GMT when it writes current date/time
fields.
Sue
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Subject: [Dspace-tech] Problem with incorrect accession dates in DSpace
1.4.2
Hi everyone,
I've noticed several times before that, when we import batches of
new records/documents into DSpace, the values for metadata field
"date.accessioned" never matches our machine current date/time. For
instance, for a record that I just imported, "date.accessioned" =
2008-06-17T19:03:15Z, but our machine date (and current date/time) is
3:03 p.m. on June 17, 2008. So it looks like the time being formatted
in DCDate.java is 4 hours ahead. I noticed a comment in DCDate.java
that says:
/**
* Construct a date from a Dublin Core value
*
* @param fromDC
* the date string, in ISO 8601 (no timezone, always use
UTC/GMT)
*/
Is this program converting the current time to "UTC/GMT" and if so, why?
What can I do about this?
Thanks,
Sue
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