Problem displaying time

[sam-user]

Hello,
I have a bit of a problem displaying time in my seam/richfaces application.
When I need to display a date/time value I use f:convertDateTime with the format pattern. The problem is that the displayed time is (t-1)

For example if the current time is "01/09/2009 13:11" this code:

<p:text value="#{currentDatetime}">
 <f:convertDateTime pattern="dd/MM/yyyy HH:mm:ss" />
</p:text>

will return : "01/09/2009 12:11"

This is for one of my reports, but the same thing happens in my normal pages.
I tried using timeZone="GMT" , but it didn't change anything.

Can anyone suggest what might be wrong ?
Thanks.

[nbelaevski]

Hi,

Check this: http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/FAQ#Date - is that the thing you've tried?

[sam-user]

Hi,
thanks.

Yes, I kept digging into this and apparently it's the daylight saving ( summer time) that causes the problem. So the timeZone is necessary attribute to avoid problems with summer time. I guess I just used an incorrect value for it ("GMT").
The universal solution for a seam application seems to be to use seam's variable timeZone - timeZone="#{timeZone}" .
It works.