Friday, May 07, 2004

IT tip of the week: If you've got a SOAP web service and you are using the XML DateTime data type, the default is GMT. When the web service receives the parameter, it will translate it to whatever time zone the target machine is in. So for example, if someone sends me a time in CST, it actually becomes 6 hours earlier, in this case the International Date Line West. If you're not prepared for this, it can give decidedly unexpected results.

See the XML Schema specification for more details on how to format Date-Time elements.
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