[MPIR-171] support "TimeZones" as a timezone

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.2
• Fix Version/s: 2.3
• Assignee: Siveton Vincent
• Reporter: James Nord
• Created: 28/Jul/09 08:32
• Updated: 04/Dec/10 17:06
• Resolved: 01/Nov/10 16:30

Description

The POM XSD defiens the TimeZone as an xs:string (although the descriptions says an integer between -11 and 12)

If the desctription is enforced you can not be in a timezone that is not a multiple of 1 hour away from UTC (e.g. certain parts of india)

So the description is wrong and it's just a String.
So why not support a full formatted timezone such as Europe/London, then the mpir can use funky javascript to show your actual time including any daylight saving offset. (as opposed to a fixed offset from GMT ignoring DST changes)

e.g. support

<developers>
  <developer>
    <id>bob</id>
    <name>Bob Hacker</name>
    <email>[e-mail]</email>
    <timezone>Europe/London</timezone>
    <roles>
      <role>developer</role>
    </roles>
  </developer>
</developers>

Currently the site shows NaN for the Current time.

Issue Links

• is related to: MNG-2202 Improve pom to handle daylight saving changes