Web Service Time Zone Offset Missing

[bustell]

I am having trouble with a server that is not returning the time zone offset in a Web service response. From what I've read on the internet, it should always return the time zone offset. I need it but it is missing. It works on my local development machine but not on my test server. Both are set for Eastern Time GMT-5 (4 right now because of daylight savings time).

Below is my test code (.Net 1.1):

<WebMethod(Description:="Testing Time Zone Offset", EnableSession:=False, CacheDuration:=0)> _
Public Function GetTime() As DateTime
    Dim d As DateTime = #5/28/2009 8:00:00 AM#
    Return d
End Function

Local development machine
Windows XP
Visual Studio 2003
IIS 5.1

Test machine
Windows Server 2003
IIS 6.0

Response From Local Development machine

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="[URL unfurl="true"]http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"[/URL] xmlns:xsi="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"[/URL] xmlns:xsd="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">[/URL]
  <soap:Body>
    <GetTimeResponse xmlns="https//portal.bccsoftware.com/webservices/WMM/">
      <GetTimeResult>2009-05-28T08:00:00[red].0000000-04:00[/red]</GetTimeResult>
    </GetTimeResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Response From Test machine

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="[URL unfurl="true"]http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"[/URL] xmlns:xsi="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"[/URL] xmlns:xsd="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">[/URL]
  <soap:Body>
    <GetTimeResponse xmlns="https//portal.bccsoftware.com/webservices/WMM/">
      <GetTimeResult>2009-05-28T08:00:00</GetTimeResult>
    </GetTimeResponse>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

Notice that the response from the test machine is not returning the time zone offset.

Note that this does appear to be happening on our production machine which is also a Server 2003 (IIS6) machine, but I have not been thorough test with it yet.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? I've searched Google and all I seem to find are people who are getting the offset and do not want it. I'm not getting the offset and do want it.


Pat B

 

[bustell]

Well, this is a good one. Some how the IIS configuration for the test site on the test server was set to use ASP.NET 2 in the site properties ASP.NET tab. This site is still a 1.1 site.

Changing the ASP.NET version from 2.0.50727 to 1.1.4322 seems to have fixed the problem.

Wish I knew how that setting got changed.


Pat B

 

[jmeckley]

I think Server 2003 (IIS6) uses .net 2.0 as the default. Could be wrong though.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.