Time zone settings not reflected via api

[Anonymous]

I have modified the time zone to IST (+5:30) at two places as suggested in the help articles.
1. Admin -> Location -> Time Zone
2. User -> My account -> Location -> Time Zone

But when I invoke the getMObjects API on opportunity, I'm getting the time zone for externalCreatedDate as EST(-05:00)  instead of IST(+05:30).

<attrib>

          <name>ExternalCreatedDate</name>

          <value>2013-10-25T07:45:44-05:00</value>

</attrib>

How can I get the time zone for datetime fields returned in API same as the time zone set in the portal?

[Anonymous]

To the best of my knowlwdge the API does not offset the timestamps.

That would be an interesting reqeust to post to "Ideas".

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Actually there are some fields where the timestamp is offset with timezone.
For e.g., with activityRecord API

<ns1:successGetLeadActivity>

<leadActivityList>

<returnCount>2</returnCount>

<remainingCount>1</remainingCount>

<newStartPosition>

<latestCreatedAt>2013-07-31T21:33:59-05:00</latestCreatedAt>

<oldestCreatedAt xsi:nil="true" />

<activityCreatedAt xsi:nil="true" />

<offset>ID:1024814</offset>

</newStartPosition>

<activityRecordList>

<activityRecord>

<id>1030680</id>

<activityDateTime>2013-07-09T16:44:28-05:00</activityDateTime>

<activityType>Visit Webpage</activityType>

<mktgAssetName>ClickDemo</mktgAssetName>

<activityAttributes>

<attribute>

<attrName>Webpage ID</attrName>

<attrType xsi:nil="true" />

<attrValue>2547</attrValue>

</attribute>

<attribute>

<attrName>Webpage URL</attrName>

<attrType xsi:nil="true" />

<attrValue>/ClickDemo.html</attrValue>

</attribute>

<attribute>

<attrName>Query Parameters</attrName>

<attrType xsi:nil="true" />

<attrValue>aliId=26419</attrValue>

</attribute>

<attribute>

<attrName>Referrer URL</attrName>

<attrType xsi:nil="true" />

<attrValue>http://localhost/~tkaufman/index.php</attrValue>

</attribute>

<attribute>

<attrName>Client IP Address</attrName>

<attrType xsi:nil="true" />

<attrValue>12.234.36.130</attrValue>

</attribute>

<attribute>

<attrName>User Agent</attrName>

<attrType xsi:nil="true" />

<attrValue>Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/536.28.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.3 Safari/536.28.10</attrValue>

</attribute>

<attribute>

<attrName>Message Id</attrName>

<attrType xsi:nil="true" />

<attrValue>44490</attrValue>

</attribute>

<attribute>

<attrName>Created At</attrName>

<attrType xsi:nil="true" />

<attrValue>2013-07-09 16:44:28</attrValue>

</attribute>

<attribute>

<attrName>Lead ID</attrName>

<attrType xsi:nil="true" />

<attrValue>1089965</attrValue>

</attribute>

</activityAttributes>

<campaign />

<personName xsi:nil="true" />

<mktPersonId>1089965</mktPersonId>

<foreignSysId xsi:nil="true" />

<orgName xsi:nil="true" />

<foreignSysOrgId xsi:nil="true" />

</activityRecord>

</activityRecordList>

</leadActivityList>

</ns1:successGetLeadActivity>

Will they always be offset with -05:00 ?

[Anonymous]

<latestCreatedAt>2013-07-31T21:33:59-05:00</latestCreatedAt> reflects the server time.
It is set to US time zones.

If it was offsetting the timestamp would be 21:33:59+10:30, where 5:30 are ahead of GMT plus 5:00 behind.

[Anonymous]

Ah! Now I get it.

One more question, I've seen -05:00 returned for activityRecord, multipleleads and getMobjects which you were referring as the server time.

But only with describeMobject API, the time zone for field "updatedAt" returned is  +00:00.  In fact the example given for describeMObject (http://developers.marketo.com/documentation/soap/describemobject/) also shows the timezone for "updatedAt" as +00:00. Is this time zone something different from the server time? I observe this is only with describeMObjects.