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Parsed string to date rendered inconsistently by toString() in some browsers #42

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I'm parsing dates from "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss-05:00" format and then 
toString()'ing them.

I'm being told that some folks were seeing strange dates as a result, so I 
fired up Parallels and 
MSIE6 and sure enough, they we weird. Hours off.

I checked the system time and *it* was way off. Set it. Quit and re-opened MSIE 
and all was well.

So I can envision a way to say "hey, buddy, your clock's off, so these dates 
might be too," but 
what's bugging me is why is it that a specific date being read in and then 
printed out is affected 
by the system's time settings?

Is there a way to override this? Maybe some kind of Date.setBaseTime() or 
Date.setTimeZone()?

You may or may not be able to see this in action here...
  http://www.redeemerbaptist.org/

...using a WordPress plug-in I'm attempting to make here...
  http://code.google.com/p/wp-gcal-rss/

Whining aside, thanks for a great tool!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by redeemer...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2008 at 1:20