Re: Pim toSerialFormat writes the current time and date

I don't understand you answer. Are you saying that the method
toSerialFormat() while reading the pim data changes the scheduled date
to the current time zone? Why would this be? I was under the impression
that this method simply takes the pim data and writes it to a stream.

I did some more testing, it appears to only happen on Nokia devices. The
phones I have tested on so far are the Sony Ericsson K750, W850 and
Nokia 6230i, 6131. There was no change to the tasks on the Sony Ericsson
devices.

Ken Walker wrote:
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> The current PIM specification states:
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> "Data type indicating data is a Date in long primitive data type
> format expressed in the same long value format as java.util.Date,
> which is milliseconds since the epoch (00:00:00 GMT, January 1, 1970)."
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> The differences in the phone (and/or the Java implementation on that
> phone) and the server may be what they consider the current timezone
> to be.   A lot of Java ME implementations ONLY return GMT times and
> don't look at all at the actual current timezone of the phone.
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> Hi all,
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> I am writing an app that gets the PIM data from the phone and sends it
> to a
> server. To do this I use PIM.toSerialFormat() that will write data PIM
> entry
> to an output stream which I then send to the server. I then can
> retrieve the
> PIM data at a later late from the server and write it to the phone.
> This all
> works fine.
> The problem is that when I get the PIM data from the todo list (and
> possibly
> the event list, I haven't checked) and write it to the output stream the
> date that was for the todo task changes to the current time and date
> of the
> phone. So therefore when I read the todo task back from the server it will
> have the wrong scheduled time.
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> For example;
> I have a todo task scheduled to go off on the 20-9-07 at 20:00. When I
> send
> the todo task to the server the scheduled time changes to the time and
> date
> the device is currently at, say 13-9-07 14:53. So when I get the data back
> from the server and save the todo task on the device the time for the
> scheduled task is now 13-9-07 14:53
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> Has anyone noticed this? Is there a work around? I really hope this is
> not a
> bug in the PIM api. I think it is a serious one!
> At the moment I think the only work round would be to read from the pim
> entry and not us toSerialFormat
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