Magento API returns dates in what timezone

Question

I have been trying to find the answer to this for several hours... what timezone does the Magento API use? I am assuming that the Magento API returns all date values as GMT time because they do not append the timezone string at the end of the data. Is this correct?

I am wanting to use filters and want to make sure that the dates are being correctly interpreted in my offsite client.

Answer 1

From my experience, all dates in Magento seem to be stored in GMT. You should be able to confirm this trivially in any particular case by adding a record at a known time and calculating the offset.