any reason you can't just run your app in GMT via the user.timezone property?

ms

On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:10 AM, Pascal Robert wrote:

> It look like H2 stores the time in the system's timezone instead of GMT. For 
> example, a NSTimestamp which time is 13:40:58 Etc/GMT is stored as 08:40:58 
> because my system is set to America/Montreal (GMT -5). According to H2 
> documentation:
> 
> " If the time zone is not set, the value is parsed using the current time 
> zone setting of the system. Date and time information is stored in H2 
> database files without time zone information. If the database is opened using 
> another system time zone, the date and time will be the same. That means if 
> you store the value '2000-01-01 12:00:00' in one time zone, then close the 
> database and open the database again in a different time zone, you will also 
> get '2000-01-01 12:00:00'. Please note that changing the time zone after the 
> H2 driver is loaded is not supported. "
> 
> I really need to store the dates in GMT, or at least store the timezone 
> offset, but I didn't find how to tell H2 to store it. I was thinking it might 
> be because the formatter that ERH2PlugIn.formatValueForAttribute() calls is 
> not storing the timezone offset, but when debugging, I don't even reach that 
> formatter, so the problem doesn't seem to be there.
> 
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