On 8 September 2016 at 17:18, sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 September 2016 at 01:59, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:51 PM Lefty Leverenz <leftylever...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Is this a timezone problem?

Yes.

>>>
>>>
>> Possibly. I tried changing my JIRA timezone to UTC+0, just in case, but it
>> had no effect. I don't think JIRA stores the timezone with these dates, so
>> it might be assumed to be midnight when reporter translates it to whatever
>> it considers local time. If the local time reporter is translating it to is
>> east of UTC+0, then that would make sense. It should probably parse the
>> JIRA dates as UTC+0, and then display them as UTC+0, since there's no way
>> for it to know the intended time zone from JIRA if JIRA isn't storing that
>> (even if it does store it, the UI doesn't allow you to specify, so it's
>> going to default to midnight).
>>
>
> JIRA stores the dates as YYYY-MM-DD; no time at all. Or at least that
> is the data that reporter.a.o sees.
>
> This is converted to seconds since the epoch, and assumes local time.
> I think the TZ is UTC on reporter.a.o.
>
> The epoch time must be converted back again for display.
> I suspect this is where the issue lies (given that r.a.o uses UTC)
>
> I see the following Accumulo dates:
>
> - 1.8.0: Tue Sep 06 2016
> - 1.7.2: Wed Jun 22 2016
> - 1.7.1: Fri Feb 26 2016
>
> which agree (for me) with the JIRA dates.

However if I change my local timezone to EDT I see dates one day earlier.

> I assume you are seeing one day earlier for each of those?
> What is your local timezone?
>
> In which case it's just a case of finding where the epoch time is
> converted for display and ensuring that UTC is used.
>

The dates are displayed using Javascript Date.toDateString() which
uses the local timezone.
I can fix that.

>>
>>> -- Lefty
>>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 8:48 PM, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> > On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 7:19 PM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > On 6 September 2016 at 23:38, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote:
>>> > > > Why does reporter use 1 day earlier than JIRA when I use the "Fetch
>>> > > > releases from JIRA" feature?
>>> > >
>>> > > What exactly do you mean by that?
>>> > >
>>> >
>>> > What I mean is that when I put the release date in JIRA as 06/Sep/2016,
>>> and
>>> > then use the sync feature in reporter.apache.org, the one in reporter
>>> > shows
>>> > Mon Sep 05 2016, which is one day earlier than what is stored in JIRA. It
>>> > does this for all the releases.
>>> >
>>>

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