Thanks for the information and reference to the spec. And... at least for what I'm seeing, the timezone after deserialization is the app server's time zone.
-joel -----Original Message----- From: Jens Schumann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 2:12 PM To: Axis User Subject: Re: Timezone in Date passed in to web service On 7/7/03 11:08 PM Jens Schumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/7/03 10:56 PM Shellman, Joel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 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.
