Following a EMA demo session with clients, they want to know if there is any method available to convert com.thomsonreuters.ema.access.DataType.DataTypes#DATETIME to java.time.LocalDateTime, and vice verse. Can anyone help with it? Thanks.
Hello @tonyzhuTR
According to my finding, EMA does not provide any method to convert com.thomsonreuters.ema.access.DataType.DataTypes#DATETIME to java.time.LocalDateTime, and vice verse. The application has to do this by itself.
Converting to java.time.Instant would be more appropriate. This is because the content of a DATETIME field is meant to a UTC value. Converting to LocalDateTime would be incorrect, IMO.
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Of course, it cannot be guaranteed that there wouldn't be someone out there who hasn't read the documentation and therefore would be publishing some local timezone value into a DATETIME field. However, I still think that - in the absence of other information - you should trust that publishers of information are in fact obeying by the convention.
