[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-2981?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.... ] Stan Silvert commented on WFLY-2981: ------------------------------------ Looking at SimpleDateFormat, I do have the option of parsing the date back out. So I could pass in a format String that includes everything but the kitchen sink, then parse the string that comes back to get a Date object. But that technique seems error-prone and non-obvious. Instead of my earlier suggestion to have two fields, why don't we put a flag on the operation called, "format-date", with a default value of true. That way, the default can be human-readable, but if you need the date as a Long then the operation can give it to you that way. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira