Me and Rupert have been looking at this as we've had this issue for a
while with specifically the Birth Date field - but any date only fields
will have this issue.
The birth date field is date only in ofbiz and in the database
java.sql.Date is returned from jdbc drivers when the field is SQL date,
the date will be set but the time will always be 00:00:00. The
java.sql.Date is only there to represent date only component of
java,util.Date (java.sql.Date overrides toString method to return only
the
date)
Because java.sql.Date extends java.util.Date and can be used in
DateFormat
class, applying a timezone with a negative offset will shift the day to
the
previous day because time is ALWAYS set to 00:00:00
This also occurs in freemarker if you convert a java.sql.Date to a
string
using syntax such as ${date?string} where date is a java.sql.Date
object. I
have created a fix in my fork at
https://github.com/gareth-carter/freemarker
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From: Rupert Howell <ruperthow...@provolve.com>
To: "dev@ofbiz.apache.org" <dev@ofbiz.apache.org>
Date: 01/04/2014 09:27
Subject: Re: Birthday's Change
------------------------------
My birth date is my birth date wherever I am in the world - it is not
relative. My passport doesn't change as I travel through Timezones. Yet
if
I view my passport information is OFBiz it will change,
Dates need to be viewed as dates and be totally independent of
timezones. I
cannot think of a single reason why you would want to be specific with
dates. If you do want to be specific and have them change as to where
you
view them from - you'd just use Timestamps.
On 1 April 2014 09:12, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Rupert,
>
> You are right when you don't want to be to specific. But if you are
> specific and precise then a birthday needs to have a time zone
associated.
>
> Remember it is not the birthday itself that shifts, but your
viewpoint of
> it when changing locations (meaning time zones).
>
> Regarding.
>
> Pierre Smits
>
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> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Pierre Smits <pierre.sm...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hmm.
> >
> > Digging a bit deeper I see that birthday is persisted as a date. So
that
> > shouldn't be creating issues.
> >
> >
> > Pierre Smits
> >
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> >
> > On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Pierre Smits <
pierre.sm...@gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Rupert,
> >>
> >> A date should not be stored as a date-time, but as a date. This
appears
> >> throughout the entire spectrum of apps where dates are intended.
Over
> 600
> >> entity fields are designated as date-time, 18 entity fields are
> designated
> >> as date and 8 as time.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >>
> >> Pierre Smits
> >>
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> >>
> >> On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Rupert Howell <
> ruperthow...@provolve.com>wrote:
> >>
> >>> There's a definite problem with the way the dates are displayed in
> OFBiz.
> >>> If you enter a birthday with your local timezone set to UTC, then
> change
> >>> the timezone to -12, the birthday changes to the previous day.
This
is
> >>> clearly wrong and is really apparent if you have your Server
Timezone
> set
> >>> to GB. If the birthday is within BST (April - October) and you
are in
> GMT
> >>> (Nov - March) they all appear incorrectly and vice versa.
> >>>
> >>> Ultimately this is caused by line 977 UtilDateTime
> >>>
> >>> f.setTimeZone(tz);
> >>>
> >>> Can anyone think of a legitimate reason why a date would have a
> timezone
> >>> applied? A date is a date. January 1st is January 1st no matter
where
> in
> >>> the world you are. I would have thought if you want a date to be
> timezone
> >>> dependent you'd use a Timestamp.
> >>>
> >>> I could patch line 666 of ModelFormField but I think it would be
better
> >>> to
> >>> actually change the UtilDateTime method..
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