Re: Pim toSerialFormat writes the current time and date

All I'm saying is that the format of the date in the vCalendar entry may
be modified by the particular implementation, and it's something to look
at to see if it matches what you would get in System.currentTimeMillis().

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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:

The current PIM specification states:

"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)."

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,

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.

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

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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