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

Question

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>

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

I have verified this bug even in QB 2019 :(

While not optimal, there is an easy workaround:

Check to see if the time is in the future. If it is, subtract one hour.

//Pseudocode
if (timeModified.after(now())
  return timeModified.minus(oneHour)
else
  return timeModified

This change would still work if the bug was ever fixed.