Tasklist and timezones

Good afternoon,

I’m running the Camunda 7.5.0 Wildfly 10 distribution using a PostgreSQL database.
I see that the dates in the database are stored in default JVM date (local date) without timezone information.

Also, as the rest api does not send timezone information (again, by default) I can only assume that by default the camunda tasklist shows date and time info without any transformation.

Is this correct?

Given this, is it possible to make the tasklist -without any changes- usable from multiple countries with different timezones when i ;

  1. store all timestamps in the database with timezone info
  1. pass timezone via rest interface
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Hi @nvanbelle
regarding this topic there is an open ticket in Jira:
https://app.camunda.com/jira/browse/CAM-6074

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Hello Felix,

Thank you for pointing out a ticket has been created already.
This can potentially become quite an issue for us in the -near- future.

Kind Regards

The ticket primarily addresses tasklist visualization and manipulation of dates. Another concern that comes to mind is any sort of scripting that occurs will also have to query for a user’s timezone (something that should probably be added to a user profile)

Example that comes to mind if sending emails through the mail connector (https://github.com/camunda/camunda-bpm-mail). If any sort of date is printed to a email/message etc then would have to understand the user’s timezone and print correct info.