f:convertDateTime substracting a day

[Yasir Qureshi]

I am very confused I have date input on a page and using <f:convertDateTime> for conversion on my bean one day is subtracting from the date user enters.
If user enters 02/01/2009, it is changed to 01/31/2009. Is this a bug with this tag. Comments/Suggestions/workaround?

Thanks.

[yigit darcin]

Yasir Qureshi wrote:I am very confused I have date input on a page and using <f:convertDateTime> for conversion on my bean one day is subtracting from the date user enters.
If user enters 02/01/2009, it is changed to 01/31/2009. Is this a bug with this tag. Comments/Suggestions/workaround?

Thanks.

you have to enter your timeZone to fix this: an example would be:

<h:outputText value="#{fax.date}" >
<f:convertDateTime timeZone="Turkey"/>
</h:outputText>

you can search for your timezone, and put it there.

[Yasir Qureshi]

Thanks Darkin it worked.

[Tim Holloway]

Just to make it clear. If you don't explicitly provide a timezone, the displayed date is based on UTC. And when it's 3 am in Greenwich, England, it's still evening in New York.

[Kiran Kodandoor]

You can also use

  <s:convertDateTime pattern="MM/dd/yyyy" />;  

the seam taglib. This doesn't have the bug that JSF tag has. If you use this taglib you needn't specify the default timezone.