URGENT: Alfresco share time zone issue

[aaditvmajmudar]

We are having one custom metadata date field.

User edits that field from alfresco share in form with form control date.ftl.

When user clicks on create button of form, the actual date stored is '-1' less than the selected date.

e.g,
User selects 9th july 2014 from alfresco share UI from calender control but actual it stores 8th July.

Our server is in EDT timezone and user is in other timezone like CST,IST…

I saw that when user selects the date from UI, it appends 00:00:00 as a time stamp and when actually date gets stored by alfresco, it stores 20:00:00 as time stamp (-4 offset).

e.g,
User selection: 9th july (2014-07-09T00:00:00.000+00:00)
Alfresco store: 8th july (2014-07-08T20:00:00 EDT)

I want user date selection as it is.

Please advice.

[davidcognite]

Hello,

This is actually the expected behaviour. All dates are persisted as date times in the server's timezone. Therefore on the way in, all dates need to have a time associated with them and this time is then correctly modified from the user's local time to the server's local time and persisted. On the way out the reverse happens, with the persisted time and date being converted to the user's local time and date by Share's client side code. The two times you've listed refer to exactly the same time, so it appears that the date entered is being persisted correctly.

If you're seeing an issue with how that date is displayed in the UI, then it's possible there might be a bug - this is an area that it's hard to test and there might be some issues (especially surrounding custom metadata) that have slipped through our QA. This is an area that improved massively between 3.4 and 4.0 and has continued to be enhanced through to 5.0. You're likely to find any display issues have been fixed in more recent versions. However, if that isn't the case, we'd appreciate it if you could raise a JIRA and then we can fix any rendering issues that still exist.

If you've written any custom UI renderers for your metadata, you'll need to ensure that the date returned from the API is parsed by Alfresco.util.fromISO8601 on the client side.

David.