current-dateTime() in Orbeon form

[Chunyu]

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

[Alessandro Vernet]

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 Cong]

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

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[Alessandro Vernet]

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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