Date without timezone

[HazuRek]

Good day!

Is it made on purpose that date has format without timezone: "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'?
The problem is that when converting to Date object (using Gson library in Java) the time become incorrect. E.g. when converting "2013-08-29T14:44:00.000Z" the result Date object has time "Thu Aug 29 14:44:00 GMT+04:00 2013" which is incorrect.

[AlgoTrader]

Are you aware that all Betfair dates are timezone-less? It means, that it is up to you which time zone to convert time to.

Press F12 in Chrome, select console tab and type

new Date("2013-08-29T14:44:00.000Z")
Thu Aug 29 2013 18:44:00 GMT+0400 (Moscow time (summer))

My browser just translated the time to the zone it likes. That's GUI's role to present dates in your local timezone, internally all dates are in GMT.

Check your lib, the problem is certainly there, you probably misuse it

[HazuRek]

The "problem" is not with concrete lib, it is with standart JavaSE class SimpleDateFormat.

	@Test
	public void testSimpleDateFormat() throws ParseException
	{
		SimpleDateFormat sdf = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS'Z'");
		String text = "2013-08-29T14:44:00.000Z";
		System.out.println(sdf.parse(text));
	}

The output is:

Thu Aug 29 14:44:00 GMT+04:00 2013

[AlgoTrader]

Converting ISO8601-compliant String to java.util.Date
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...java-util-date

Yep, it is painful in Java to deal with ISO 8601 dates