[wp-xmlrpc] Using date_created_gmt in a Java application??

[Joe Cheng]

The spec doesn't actually specify.

What timezone should be assumed for the dateTime.iso8601 type? UTC? localtime?
Don't assume a timezone. It should be specified by the server in its documentation what assumptions it makes about timezones.

I believe appending a "Z" to the end of the date/time string will make WP interpret it as GMT-if your library will let you do that.

From: wp-xmlrpc-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:wp-xmlrpc-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of Tom Hoag
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 6:55 AM
To: wp-xmlrpc at lists.automattic.com
Subject: Re: [wp-xmlrpc] Using date_created_gmt in a Java application??


Turns out the version of WP that I'm using as a test blog has an older version of xmlrpc.php
that does not have date_created_gmt (only looks for dateCreated in the struct).  Hence, using
the date_created_gmt field is yielding exactly the result that I was seeing: use current date.
(I was referencing a local copy of xmlrpc.php that I must have grabbed from a more recent
version of WP)

So now I'm back to the dateCreated situation -- dateCreated interprets the passed in date
as GMT.  Which, as it turns out, is exactly what the spec specifies (http://www.xmlrpc.com/spec)

<dateTime.iso8601>    date/time    19980717T14:08:55

Note that there is not TZ (or millisecond) component to the dateTime.iso8601 -- So I'm supposing
that my method of offsetting my desired postdate by the diff between the local TZ and GMT is
the only way to get around this . . .

Also, I started going down the path to dump the XML being sent to the server, but couldn't find
anything.  Is there a mechanism on WP to log the XML somewhere??  Would be handy to know
for future debugging.

thanks

tom



Message: 3
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:30:48 -0600
From: Joseph Scott <joseph at randomnetworks.com<mailto:joseph at randomnetworks.com>>
Subject: Re: [wp-xmlrpc] Using date_created_gmt in a Java
       application??



On Sep 22, 2008, at 9:40 AM, Tom Hoag wrote:

>
> I'm writing a Java app using the redstone xmlrpc library and having
> a problem with both postCreated and date_created_gmt
>
> Whenever I set the postCreated field, WP interprets/modifies the
> timezone to GMT. For the time being, I've kludged the date (adding
> the difference between the local TZ and GMT) so that WP gets the
> post date right.  This is ugly and I'd rather not do this . . .
>
> It's been suggested that I use the date_created_gmt field, but I've
> had zero luck getting this to work.  It seems that WP cannot parse
> the passed in java.util.Date as a valid date and subsequently
> defaults to the current date.
>
> Any thoughts on whats going on here?  Anyone care to share some
> working code?



Can you post the raw XML when using date_created_gmt?  I'm afraid my
Java skills are pretty limited, perhaps someone else will have some
suggestions on that side of things.

--
Joseph Scott
joseph at randomnetworks.com<mailto:joseph at randomnetworks.com>
http://joseph.randomnetworks.com/

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