I think the intended replacement is SimpleDateFormat.  I recall that Mike had a 
subclass that understood NSTimestampFormatter symbols.  I thought that went in 
Wonder, but I don't see it.


Chuck



On Mar 7, 2011, at 11:43 AM, John Huss wrote:

> My recollection was that this was deprecated without any real alternative 
> being available.  It's part of the magic that is WO 5.4.
> 
> John
> 
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:39 PM, George Domurot <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> You can use the good 'ole NSTimestampFormatter, while it is deprecated and 
> there is probably a Java version that you should use, it works:
> 
>        timestampFormatter = new NSTimestampFormatter( --add your format 
> symbols-- );
>        timestampFormatter.setDefaultFormatTimeZone( --add your timezone-- );
>        timestampFormatter.setDefaultParseTimeZone( --add your timezone-- );
> 
> Then bind this to your WOTextFiend.dateformat attribute.
> 
> Maybe someone can comment on a non depreciated approach?
> 
> -G
> 
> 
> On Mar 7, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Pascal Robert wrote:
> 
> > Just tried that, and when I display the date in a WOTextField with a 
> > dateformat formatter, the time show up in GMT instead of America/Montreal, 
> > even if I call this.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("America/Montreal")); 
> > in Session.java.
> >
> > To make it short, I want to store the time in GMT, but want to show and 
> > edit it in the local timezone of the user. Me starting to think that I 
> > should use a long that store the epoch :-/
> >
> >> 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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