Date and Datetime Strings in Constants
In constant expressions used in bindings, datetime values are read in according to the ISO 8601 standard, as described in the XML Schema specification. For example, the value:
"2002-02-10T14:55:31.112-08:00"
is 55 minutes, 31 seconds and 112 milliseconds after 2pm on February 10th, 2002 in a timezone that is 8 hours, 0 minutes behind UTC.
If no timezone field is present, the value is interpreted in the timezone of the machine that is performing the parsing. This can lead to complications if you are processing data from different timezones, so you are encouraged to always use timezones.
When TIBCO BusinessEvents generates datetime strings UTC time is always used. The output for the example above is:
2002-02-10T14:55:31.112Z
which is the equivalent time in the UTC timezone.