Java date issue with Daylight saving

One of our UK clients complained that some of the timestamp settings in IFS are incorrect. This issue was noticed in Tasks where the received timestamp is one hour behind of the actual time. 

After some debugging the function call to save the task, we identified that the received time is set from the application server and seems this is an issue with Java Date class.

It could be verified that Java is picking the wrong date by writing a small program which gets the java date, exactly the same way the IFS middletier code sets the value for Received field.

import java.util.Date.*;

public class date {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
		System.out.println(new java.util.Date().toString());
    }
}

Making this issue more complicated, we’ve found that this issue only exist for the Java version packed with IFS App8 (Java version 1.7.0_45) but not exist in java 1.8

We could not find any information in java release notes regarding this sort of an issue but  Java 8 troubleshooting guide  shed light on this issue as it seems Java timezone depends on the Time Zone information registry value.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlTimeZoneInformation]

In the customer registry settings, DynamicDaylightTimeDisabled registry value which java looks for is correctly defined but seems DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet value causing  the issue.

Resolution

Setting the DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet=0 seems to solve the issue.

1. Launch the Registry Editor (regedit.exe).
2. Navigate to HKLMSYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlTimeZoneInformation
3. Double-click on DisableAutoDaylightTimeSet, change the value to 0 and click on OK button.