Internationalization issue : convert date/time to GMT/UTC

We have our webservices running in websphere /oracle.There is this requirement to internationalize the application ...like
a) language .....
d)Internatiolization of time :
For this requirment I am planning to do the following.Service request with date will be converted to GMT before it is stored in database and the response back will be converted from GMT back to the time zone of the requester and have the application server/database server configured to UTC time.Is this a good strategy or is there a better one.
Thanks
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Manjit wrote:
Sabre,to confirm again...you are suggesting that there is even no need to change the oracle Date field from Date type to Timestamp.The only thing I really have to do is for display purpose convert/format the response date to the zone the request is coming from.Please let me know if I missed anything.The above statement is indefinite.
Are you starting with a java.util.Date or perhaps a java.sql.Timestamp?
Then you do NOT convert them. You display them. You use SimpleDateFormat for that. You do not concern yourself at all with timezones exception in terms of creating a SimpleDateFormat. And that is ONLY an issue if you are creating the string (display value) on a server. If you are doing that you will need the client to provide you with a timezone. There is no magic way to get that from the client. If a client app is doing the display the the client is running in a client VM and that VM will already have a display format that might be suitable.
Conversely if you are receiving a timestamp value as a text value (say read it from a file) then you must convert that into a java.util.Date. You do that via SimpleDateFormat. The specifics of how you do that depends on the form of the text value.

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