title: Documentum DQL: How can I get UTC time zone for Date columns to parse to .NET?
body: <p>Documentum (DQL via DFC) always returns Date result columns as a string formatted like this: </p>
  
  <pre><code>Wed Oct 19 16:01:59 PDT 2011
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  <p>...and the .NET <code>DateTime.Parse</code> function chokes on this — especially the <code>PDT</code> time zone (TZ henceforth) part of the strings — as far as I can tell, there is no concept of these TZ abbreviations in the DateTime parsing.  Sure, it'll understand <code>+8:00</code> but not <code>PDT</code>.</p>
  
  <p>The TZ is based on the TZ of the content server, which may not always be the same TZ as the consumer of the web service (we're feeding out the DQL results via web service).</p>
  
  <p>SO... if I can get Documentum to ALWAYS give me the UTC time in those strings, I can do the conversion quite easily on the client and always have their correct time zone.  </p>
  
  <p>Can this be done?  Is there a Documentum setting for the content server to always return GMT times?</p>
  
  <p>Alternative solutions? </p>