It's a "bug" in the DateSerializer class. One of the developers left commented a statement that would set the time zone to "GMT/UTC" correctly.
-Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Means [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 7:42 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: How are you handling dates? > > > It seems as though the java.util.Date class is serializing dates in the > local time zone, rather than the depicted Zulu time (GMT/UTC). > > Is anyone else doing Apache-SOAP development where they have to > handle time > zone issues? > > I'm storing everything in the backend database in GMT, so the middle tier > expects to send and recieve all date/times in GMT. > > It's a client function to convert to the locale time if they need to. > > My problem is that unless I set the middle tier machine's time > zone to GMT, > dates keep on getting serialized into CST (my local time zone). > > Can anyone shed any light on this? > > TIA. > > -Chris >
