[AXIS2C-1500] date_time serialize may use invalid separator for milliseconds

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.7.0
• Component/s: util
• Environment: OS: Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, ; Compiler: Visual Studio 2010 (VC10) ; 32-bit build
• Assignee: Don Samisa Abeysinghe
• Reporter: Ivan Pechorin
• Created: 03/Nov/10 07:55
• Updated: 07/Apr/20 17:45
• Resolved: 30/Aug/11 13:42

Description

Axis2/C date/time serialization routines in util/src/date_time.c use sprintf. This may lead to comma used as separator between seconds and milliseconds, due to locale settings. I'm not sure if sprintf is locale-dependent on Windows only, or this behavior also exists on other platforms.

The standard mandates use of dot (".") as separator, comma is not allowed: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime

Affected routines:

• axutil_date_time_serialize_time
• axutil_date_time_serialize_time_with_time_zone
• axutil_date_time_serialize_date_time
• axutil_date_time_serialize_date_time_with_time_zone

I believe, serialize should provide valid (as per standard) output, no matter which separator is specified in locale.