Hi Leslie,
first of all (offtopic), try to conform to the quoting standards.
preceding '--'s are not.
leslie schrieb:
>
> --Saved or serialized? IMHO:
> --Saved: UTC-times
> --Serialized: W3C-formatted string representation of the date
>
> It looks like you are suggesting that rather than send the Date to the
> server, Dates should be converted to Strings to be serialized? For
> example, suppose I have a simple object "Person" with two attributes,
> one of which is a Date.
>
> public class Person {
> private String fullname;
> private Date birthdate;
> }
We were talking about dates where you need timezones. A birthday
is a quite bad example for that.
> How should I send the Date information as String, at what point should
> it be converted? I'd rather not change my model attributes from Date
> type to String.
Date is just an Object around a long-value representing the
milliseconds since Jan 1, 1970 00:00:00 UTC. So you can send
the UTC time to the server or you evaluate the HTTP-request-
headers of the request on the server side to find out what
timezone the browser resides in to convert it to UTC on
server-side.
Regards, Lothar
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