[Quickfixj-users] UtcTimestampConverter question

[Andrew M. <mar...@gm...>]

Hello everyone,

I am working on a feed program that connects to an ECN that speaks FIX, so
I am using quickfixj. The protocol is 5.0sp2. I am using the latest version
of quickfixj, version 2.2.0. I am seeing something very strange in the data
that comes over. One of the messages has a transaction time that is
supposed to be in UTC. However the data that comes over the wire has a
trailing "Z" after the number of seconds. I presume that "Z" stands for
Zulu time, basically an alias for UTC. That seems wrong to me. If the value
is supposed to be in UTC then there is no need for any characters at the
end to denote the timezone even if that timezone is UTC. quickfix agrees.
We are getting a IncorrectDateFormat exception which seems to be thrown
from UtcTimestampConverter.convert. I presumed that the ECN side would be
using quickfixj to assemble the messages that we see and using the same
data dictionary that they have given us, so how on earth can this happen?
Any thoughts/ideas will be gratefully received.

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Regards,

Andrew Marlow
http://www.andrewpetermarlow.co.uk