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[Morten Olav Hansen <morten@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sam

Yes, this was done a few weeks ago, I'm sorry if it causes issues on your
end. This was done as we have seen a lot of TZ related issues lately, and
because of the way TZ is stored internally (i.e. its not stored) this meant
that the output from the API was not always correct. So this fix simply
give out what was given in.

That said, for your particular issue.. the string itself is still ISO 8601
(just without TZ), how are you parsing the dates? Maybe someone from our
Android team can tell you about how they handle this? (it didn't affect
their code)

To make your app future proof, I would suggest supporting these 2 formats:
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS

We are planing to have a big overhaul of the way TZ works internally in
2.26 (basically properly storing TZ, and adding back timezone info). If you
support these 2 formats, you should have no issues.

-- 
Morten Olav Hansen
Senior Engineer, DHIS 2
University of Oslo
http://www.dhis2.org

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Alex Tumwesigye <atumwesigye@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Dear Sam,
>
> Quick fix is to reformat the date-time string to your own format e.g
> yyyy-mm-dd hh-mm-ss
>
> Alex
>
>
> On Sunday, August 28, 2016, Sampath Jayasinghe <sampathgayani@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello Friends,
>>
>> I'm working on an android app that interacts with DHIS2. It is a
>> government project. This is one of the projects that Health officials are
>> really concerned about. They are looking forward to demo this next week.
>>
>> Recently we have downloaded the new #124 build of dhis.war. Our well
>> tested and app seamed crashing on retrieving Events from Events API and we
>> did a thorough investigation since that part of the code was tested by
>> several hundreds of users and approved.
>>
>> Our findings are as below.
>>
>> -* previous Format*
>>
>> "programStage": "wS2i9c9hXXz",
>>       "orgUnit": "cRv4S3vBoIK",
>>       "program": "MmGml1Gyb7K",
>>       "trackedEntityInstance": "yNSwSLV7zlN",
>>       "enrollment": "iclnhtQ00gr",
>>       "enrollmentStatus": "ACTIVE",
>>       "href": "http:///nss/api/events/FWvWE950yZf
>> <http://dhis.pgim.cmb.ac.lk/nss/api/events/FWvWE950yZf>",
>>       "event": "FWvWE950yZf",
>>       "status": "ACTIVE",
>>       *"eventDate": "2016-01-13T18:30:00.000+0000",*
>>       "orgUnitName": "Ambagahawella",
>>       "created": "2016-03-14T13:36:03.956+0000",
>>       "lastUpdated": "2016-03-14T13:36:03.956+0000",
>>       "followup": false,
>>       "dataValues":
>>
>> -* Current Format*
>>
>> "programStage": "wS2i9c9hXXz",
>>       "orgUnit": "cRv4S3vBoIK",
>>       "dueDate": "2016-06-15T16:08:01.665",
>>       "program": "MmGml1Gyb7K",
>>       "trackedEntityInstance": "luBswqwIXi0",
>>       "enrollment": "gyEbBkDubZb",
>>       "enrollmentStatus": "ACTIVE",
>>       "href": "http://l/nss/api/events/Tq1eNtA7l6R
>> <http://lankanets.info:8080/nss/api/events/Tq1eNtA7l6R>",
>>       "event": "Tq1eNtA7l6R",
>>       "status": "ACTIVE",
>>      * "eventDate": "2016-06-15T16:02:33.455",*
>>       "orgUnitName": "Ambagahawella",
>>       "attributeCategoryOptions": "ZJyvKtqS7Kx",
>>       "created": "2016-06-15T16:08:01.683",
>>       "lastUpdated": "2016-06-15T16:08:01.683",
>>       "followup": false,
>>       "coordinate": {
>>         "latitude": 0.0,
>>         "longitude": 0.0
>>       },
>>       "dataValues":
>>
>>
>> Please note that the older version and latest version has a difference
>> when it comes to DateTime formats such as *eventDate*. This change seams
>> to be deadly to us. Our app has so many time based dependencies.
>>
>> How can we address these kind of sudden changes? Specially when we don't
>> have a development team, we may not be able to customize these builds once
>> apps finished.
>>
>> Please provide your valuable thoughts.
>>
>> Thank you all in advance. Appreciate the efforts on this great course as
>> well.
>>
>> Sam
>>
>>
>
> --
> Alex Tumwesigye
>
> Technical Advisor - DHIS2 (Consultant),
> Ministry of Health/AFENET  | HISP Uganda
> Kampala
> Uganda
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>
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> - DHIS2, Disease Outbreak & Surveillance Systems) & Solar Consultant
>
>
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>
>
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