[Mantisbt-soap-dev] RFC: Returning time information in GMT from the SOAP API

[Robert M. <rob...@gm...>]

Hi,

Currently the SOAP API returns dates ( creation, last modification,
comment dates ) in the repository's local time zone, e.g.

<last_updated xsi:type="xsd:dateTime">2011-09-23T07:29:18Z</last_updated>

This is inconvenient because the client needs to know beforehand the
timezone of the Mantis installation, which is not available using the
SOAP API.

There are multiple possibilities here:

- add a new SOAP API call which would return the timezone of the
Mantis repository
- send all dates as GMT

I prefer sending dates as GMT, as this is the least ambiguous and
sidesteps around thorny issues such as DST with dates jumping back and
forth.

But before implementing I'd like to hear others' opinions, if any.

Thanks,

Robert
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