[SOLVED] QuickBooks Web Connector TimeModified offset does not account for Daylight Savings time

QuickBooks Web Connector TimeModified offset does not account for Daylight Savings time

I'm using QuickBooks Web Connector to pull employee records out of QuickBooks Desktop on a Windows 8.1 machine using QBXML requests. Is there a reason the TimeModified time stamps are returning an offset that does not account for Daylight Savings time? Is there a way to get the current time on the host system?

It is currently returning "2014-03-27T14:20:53-05:00" for TimeModified, even though the current timezone is set to Eastern Time with "Adjust for Daylight Savings Time" enabled. The offset should be -04:00.

The QBXML request:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?qbxml version="12.0"?>
<QBXML>
  <QBXMLMsgsRq onError="stopOnError">
    <EmployeeQueryRq metaData="MetaDataAndResponseData">
      <OwnerID>0</OwnerID>
    </EmployeeQueryRq>
  </QBXMLMsgsRq>
</QBXML>

Solution

According to a moderator of the IPP community, this is a bug. Unfortunately we have no way of tracking it.

"QBWG-18389 - DST is not showing correctly in TimeCreated & TimeModified Fields ... We do not have a way to track these externally."

Incorrect TimeModified Offset - Intuit Partner Platform Community (Edit: Aaaaand it's gone. This is now a dead link, perhaps the issue can be tracked down?)