Re: org.apache.axis.types.Time

[Egor Pervuninski]

Hello Jeff,

## Deppen, Jeff : Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:57:06 -0500

DJ> All, Does anyone know of a way to dictate the timezone
DJ> org.apache.axis.types.Time uses?  It appears to ALWAYS convert a
DJ> local time to UTC.  (I've got some picky client app developers
DJ> that want the time as Eastern Standard Time.)

According to the source code you can't.

=== cut Time.java ===
[...]
    private static SimpleDateFormat zulu =
       new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'");

    // We should always format dates in the GMT timezone
    static {
        zulu.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
    }
[...]
    public String toString() {
        synchronized (zulu) {
            return zulu.format(_value.getTime());
        }
    }
[...]
=== cut Time.java ===

So it will always serialize org.apache.axis.types.Time as UTC.
Some time ago I solved such problem by patching the source code by hand.

Regards,
Egor Pervuninski