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Chunyu_uk

current-dateTime() in Orbeon form

Hello,

We are facing a strange behaviour of Orbeon form.

The result of current-dateTime() is different with different environment.

We only have a simple output like <xf:output value="current-dateTime()"/>.

It is working fine with one environment and it outputs same as the machine time.

However, it outputs with a different timeZone at other environment that machine has been set as BST. But the output of current-dateTime is American time.

Both environments have the same code.

Please advise.

Thanks,

Chunyu

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Alessandro Vernet

Re: current-dateTime() in Orbeon form

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Hi Chunyu,

Would you have an example of what the out of the current-dateTime() is on both environments?

Alex

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Chunyu_uk

Re: current-dateTime() in Orbeon form

Hi Alex,

I used current-dateTime() in a test form of form builder from both environments.

They have exactly same code.

Please see the four screen shots with the outputs and machine time each.

Thanks,

Chunyu

On 15 July 2015 at 07:03, Alessandro Vernet <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Chunyu,

Would you have an example of what the out of the current-dateTime() is on
both environments?

Alex

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Alessandro Vernet

Re: current-dateTime() in Orbeon form

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Hi Chunyu,

Got it. I suspect that this is because you have a different user timezone set on those 2 machines. For instance, on my computer, out of the box I get a time in PDT, my local timezone:

2015-07-15T16:23:09.787-07:00

But if I add the following flag to the JVM -Duser.timezone=Australia/Sydney, I'll get the time in the timezone for Sydney.

2015-07-16T09:20:57.608+10:00

If you want to get a consistent time across servers, you might want to explicitly set -Duser.timezone to the same value on those different servers.

Alex

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