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ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-2908:
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Github user ijokarumawak commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/1381
All LGTM, +1! Thank you @pvillard31 this is very helpful. I'm going to
merge this into master.
> Add TimeZone support to EL date functions
> -----------------------------------------
>
> Key: NIFI-2908
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-2908
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core Framework
> Reporter: Dave Torok
> Assignee: Pierre Villard
> Priority: Minor
>
> Currently the toDate() and format() functions under the hood use a
> SimpleDateFormat with the current system timezone. This leads to hard to
> locate data inconsistency errors when parsing and then generating date
> strings when the date strings are not in the same or current time zone.
> Even the example given in the documentation
> ${time:format("yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'")}
> will give an incorrect output when the system timezone is not set to GMT.
> suggestion is to add a variant to toDate(String tz) and format(String tz)
> which accepts a timezone of Java nomenclature which can be set with
> "SimpleDateFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone(tz))"
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