Timezone in Date passed in to web service

["Shellman, Joel" <Jo...@Summit.Fiserv.com>]

Why is the timezone converted when a date is passed in to a web service?

So if I have a service method:

void myMethod(Calendar myCal) {...}

If I send in 2003-06-30T00:00:00.0-05:00 to that myCal parameter and then
print out myCal in the java code, the timezone is based on whatever the
server is running at (which is -7:00 instead of -5:00). Isn't that wrong?
Shouldn't it preserve the timezone as passed in instead of losing it? Is
there a way to make it so it does preserve the timezone or do I have to
change it to a string?

Primary reason for this is I need a date mm/dd/yyyy and that's what matters.
The server losing the timezone information causes that date to be different
than what the user entered.

Thanks,

-joel

Re: Timezone in Date passed in to web service

[Jens Schumann <je...@void.fm>]

On 7/7/03 11:08 PM Jens Schumann <je...@void.fm> wrote:

> On 7/7/03 10:56 PM Shellman, Joel <Jo...@Summit.Fiserv.com> wrote:
> 
>> Why is the timezone converted when a date is passed in to a web service?
> 
> Axis is using "Zulu" time for serialization and deserializes datetimes
> according to http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime.

I forgot to mention that after Deserialization the timezone is GMT, if I
remember correctly.

Re: Timezone in Date passed in to web service

[Jens Schumann <je...@void.fm>]

On 7/7/03 10:56 PM Shellman, Joel <Jo...@Summit.Fiserv.com> wrote:

> Why is the timezone converted when a date is passed in to a web service?

Axis is using "Zulu" time for serialization and deserializes datetimes
according to http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime.

Jens