[PDFBOX-4902] PDF/A validation fails when system time zone has minutes

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.16, 2.0.20
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.17, 2.0.21, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: XmpBox
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Juho Tikkala
• Created: 29/Jun/20 11:02
• Updated: 21/Aug/20 04:54
• Resolved: 30/Jun/20 02:56

Description

Root problem is incorrect time zone written into PDF when system time zone has minutes (e.g., IST +05:30), in our case it subsequently manifests as PDF/A validation failure.

This is because of trivial bug at https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pdfbox/trunk/xmpbox/src/main/java/org/apache/xmpbox/DateConverter.java?revision=1871492&view=markup#l325 - should divide by 60000 milliseconds to get minutes, but divides by 1000000 instead, resulting in incorrect time zone serialization of +05:01.