[eclipselink-users] question about date/timestamp

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Folks,

Apologies in advance if this is a faq, but I don't track this mailing 
list constantly.

Is there an appropriate/approved/conventional way of handling 
timezone/date/time values within jpa?  That is, I would like to persist 
date and time (down to milliseconds), and expect to have these date and 
time values coming from processes that are not expected to have 
perfectly synchronized clocks.

It it typical to persist timezone info...or simply to persist the 
consistent GMT value...and not timezone...or do something else?

If there are docs/tutorials about the general and/or jpa-specific 
issues, please just point me to them.

Thanks,

Scott