Configurable or UTC time zone for outgoing date values.
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Key: XMLRPC-78
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XMLRPC-78
Project: XML-RPC
Type: Improvement
Components: Releases
Versions: unspecified
Reporter: James Baldassari
It appears that the time zone for outgoing date values is always the local time
zone of the server. This has recently caused a problem for me when I was
creating some example XML-RPC programs for a class for which I am the teaching
assistant. For my examples I created a Java client and server using the Apache
XML-RPC library, as well as a C++ client and server using the xmlrpc-c library.
The servers simply sent back a date value when their RPC handlers were
invoked. The problem occurred when using the C++ client with the Java server
or the Java client with the C++ server because the Apache library uses the
local time zone, but the xmlrpc-c library uses UTC. I realize that the XML-RPC
spec specifically states that the time zone cannot be assumed and that this
library mixing scenario is probably not too common. However, I think that it
would be a good enhancement to allow users to specify the time zone for
outgoing date values as they can for incoming date values. An alternate
solution would be to use UTC instead of the local time zone, and then the
clients could convert the date values to their local time zone if desired.
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