Different date-time on author and publish due to server timezone difference

[ab86711137]

Hi,

I have my Author and Publish app servers in different locations and due to this i am having issues when i try fetching time from a date property.

node = hit.getNode(); String dateField = node.getProperty("start").getValue().getString(); out.println(dateField); //2015-04-20T07:15:00.000-05:00 Property startProp = node.getProperty("start"); Calendar startCal = startProp.getDate(); String formattedDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm aa").format(startCal.getTime()); out.println("Output= " + formattedDate); Publish: Output= 2015-04-20 12:15 PM Author:  Output= 2015-04-20 07:15 AM

[Jörg_Hoh]

Hi,

what do you expect? SimpleDateFormat always uses the timezone inherited from the system, unless specified otherwise. You can set set the timezone explicitly by calling the setTimezone() method on a SimpleDateFormat object. As far as I can see, this is not an AEM specific problem.

kind regards,
Jörg

[Lokesh_Shivalingaiah · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Store these dates in GMT and convert back to respective locale datetime from GMT