Description Florian Best 2022-11-23 18:40:37 CET

We got feedback from Michael about the UDM representation of users/user accountActivationDate:

"""
what was actually the motivation for using a dict for timestamps as a UDM property?

    "accountActivationDate": {
      "activation-timezone": "Europe/Berlin",
      "activation-time": null,
      "activation-date": null
    },

1. RFC 3339 defines a complete string representation that is readable by machines and humans:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3339

2. if you use names in the timezone, it is mandatory that the whole timezone stuff is available on UDM clients as well, e.g. to convert timezones.

3. python already has sufficiently good time/date parsers. If you really need correct timezone info of the past, e.g. summer/standard time mapping when displaying local time, you can use additional modules (e.g. pytz).

4. the above example is actually much too complex to represent a simple zero value.
"""