Issue 15063

Render dates in portal as UTC?

15063
Reporter: mdoering
Type: Improvement
Summary: Render dates in portal as UTC?
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Status: Closed
Created: 2014-02-12 17:02:36.465
Updated: 2018-05-31 16:50:22.678
Resolved: 2018-05-31 16:50:22.622
        
Description: What timezone should be used to render dates in the portal? Fixed UTC, fixed Copenhagen or the individual user timezone if we can identify it?

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Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Created: 2014-02-12 17:03:40.043
Updated: 2014-02-12 17:03:40.043
        
Example CATALOG NUMBER: AVES-105348
http://appdev.gbif.org:8080/occurrence-ws/occurrence/695
that record has eventDate="2010-01-10T23:00:00.000+0000"
the detail shows it on 11th of Jan: http://appdev.gbif.org/occurrence/695