Hello all! I’m using kotlinx-datetime in a project...

# kotlinx-datetime

[cafonsomota]

Hello all! I’m using kotlinx-datetime in a project, and I’ve noticed something odd here in my side. I’m converting a Calendar object to LocalDateTime (kotlinx) by setting the year, month, etc. on the constructor; and I’ve noticed that when I call .toString it prints something like 2021-03-27T09:00 instead of 2021-03-27T090000Z. What I might be doing wrong?

[Jan Skrasek]

local datetime doesn't have a zone.

[cafonsomota]

According to documentation:

The library is based on the ISO 8601 international standard, other ways to represent dates and times are out of its scope. Internationalization (such as locale-specific month and day names) is out the scope, too.

And if I’m not mistaken this ISO 8601 guarantees timezone no?

[ilya.gorbunov]

No, there are different representations of date/time entities in ISO, some of them include offset, some do not.
LocalDateTime corresponds to the representation that does not include offset.
Perhaps Instant type is what you're looking for.

[cafonsomota]

Understood, thanks you 🙂