Date is changed on the datebox after the user's input

asked 2016-10-24 10:06:02 +0800

eclipse1
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updated 2016-10-24 10:14:46 +0800

We are having a problem with our dateboxes. If the user chooses the 01-01-1970 on a datebox, after the component looses focus the date being shown is 31-12-1969.

We have a prefered timezone and then some of our pages have a specific timezone. The user should input the date according with the page's timezone and the date is converted to milliseconds with the timezone UTC. These are the configurations we have for the timezones used in the components:

• Time zone at zk.xml: UTC
• Time zone at the component language addon: UTC
• Time zone set at the component usage inside the zul file: Europe/Lisbon

Our expectations were that the timezone defined at the ZUL (Europe/Lisbon) overrides the other definitions, however the result is not consistent.

We created the next class to show us the expected time in milliseconds for the dates.

package dateCalculation;

import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.TimeZone;

public class EuropeLisbonDateGenerator {

                public static void main(String[] args) {
                                printLisbonDatesSince1970();
                }

                private static void printLisbonDatesSince1970() {
                                Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Europe/Lisbon"));
                                calendar.set(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH, 1);
                                calendar.set(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY,0);
                                calendar.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
                                calendar.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
                                calendar.set(Calendar.MILLISECOND, 0);

                                for(int year = 1970; year < 2017; year++) {
                                                calendar.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
                                                calendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.JANUARY);
                                                System.out.println("1 January " + year + ": " + calendar.getTimeInMillis());
                                                calendar.set(Calendar.YEAR, year);
                                                calendar.set(Calendar.MONTH, Calendar.JULY);
                                                System.out.println("1 July " + year + ": " + calendar.getTimeInMillis());
                                }
                }

}

This were the results:

Inputed value: 01-01-1970 (dd-mm-yyyy). The actual date in millis inside the custom converter: 0 (not ok). The expected date in millis inside the custom converter: -3600000

Inputed value: 01-07-1970 (dd-mm-yyyy). The actual date in millis inside the custom converter: 15638400000 (ok). The expected date in millis inside the custom converter: 15638400000

Inputed value: 01-01-2016 (dd-mm-yyyy). The actual date in millis inside the custom converter: 1451606400000 (ok). The expected date in millis inside the custom converter: 1451606400000

Inputed value: 01-07-2016 (dd-mm-yyyy). The actual date in millis inside the custom converter: 1467327600000 (ok). The expected date in millis inside the custom converter: 1467327600000

Do you know how to fix this problem?