[rt-users] Date Conversion question

[Ken Crocker]

To any and all,


    We have been scratching our collective heads over here trying to 
figure out why we get two different results in RT when passing some 
dates. We are converting from a legacy file and have the conversion 
program using API. Here's the problem; when we pass RT a date we want to 
go into the "Created" date field, we pass it a "yyyy/mm/dd" field and it 
gets converted properly, no problems. If we do the same thing for the 
"Started" and "Resolved" dates, it leaves the date as "1-Jan-1970" (we 
are on Oracle). Of course, we can't have 8,000 tickets that are resolved 
with no Resolved date, and they certainly can't all be the same date. If 
we pass the date to RT with "-" instead of "/", then it works. So why 
does the "Created" date work? Is RT using different date routines to 
convert date formats? That would seem odd. I could also speak of having 
to add a routine to deal with the "Greenwich Mean Time" situation for 
all of our dates, but, oh well. Does anyone have any idea of why RT can 
re-format for one of it's date fields correctly and not the others? Thanks.


Kenn
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