In a MashApp I have a date field, e.g. the current date. I convert the date into a text field using the format
yyyy-MM-dd'T'hh:mm:ssZ
as expected by the MashZone - Optimize Interface for the startDate or endDate, rsp.
The result looks like
2012-03-20T08:46:00+0000
For my time zone MEZ, I would expect +0100. Am I wrong, or is this a bug in MashZone?
Hello Lukas
What you describe is the intended behavior of mashzone.
Mashzone handles dates only in GMT Timezone. So if you create a output with timezone, you get GMT.
Regards
Thomas
Sorry but that does not fit together. The time MashZone returns is my local time. Only the time zone value is +0000 ("GMT"). It should either return the GMT time with the +0000 or the local time with the local time zone. Which sense does it makes to add a +0000 behind a local time?
Example
Current time (now MESZ) : 2012-03-28 10:49:00
MashZone value: 2012-03-28 10:49:00+0000
GMT would be: 2012-03-28 08:49:00+0000
Local would be: 2012-03-28 10:49:00+0200
And if I forward the time which I receive from MashZone, to Optimize, it does not give me the expected time range.
Hi Lukas
The dateParser and the dateFormatter in Mashzone works in GMT-Time.
So if you have a Date as Text mashzone interprets this date as GMT-Date.
And if you format the date mashzone formats the date as GMT-Date.
The only exception is the InfoOperator. Here we use the local Timezone to create the current Date. And after that we handle this Date as GMT Date.
For example: You have this string "2012-03-28 10:49:00+0200" and you parse the string with the pattern "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ssZ" you will get "2012-03-28T08:49:00" (+0200)
All this things happens on the Mashzone-Server. There is no functionality to transfer the Timezone from client.
Best Regards
Thomas