[jira] [Updated] (SLING-4258) JSON representation of Calendar values should preserve timezone

["Bertrand Delacretaz (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Bertrand Delacretaz updated SLING-4258:
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    Summary: JSON representation of Calendar values should preserve timezone  (was: Please document better how dates are handled by the Post servlet)

> JSON representation of Calendar values should preserve timezone
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>                 Key: SLING-4258
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLING-4258
>             Project: Sling
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Documentation
>            Reporter: santiago garcía pimentel
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> Im currently doing some things with dates in Sling that involve timezones and I find that the documentation regarding it is not particularly clear.
> according to https://sling.apache.org/documentation/bundles/manipulating-content-the-slingpostservlet-servlets-post.html#date-properties
> several formats are defined. 
> I found that the only format that saves a provided timezone is the ISO8601 format, rest of them relies in a Date object, which does not have timezones. Could this be clearly stated?
> Also, the ISO8601 parser is problematic. It relies on the Jackrabbit parser which uses format "±YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.SSSTZD", but according to http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime the ISO format does not have milliseconds on it ("SSS"). So it is very hard to find a way to keep the timezone information (I had to dig through the code to figure it out)
> Could we please replace ISO8601 with the actual format "±YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.SSSTZD" so it is clearer?



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