Updating the date field using the Attribute Inspector sample from ArcGIS API for Javascript 2.8 saves the incorrect dates.

Additional Information

Workaround

Change the code to reflect the correct time zone. Since the feature is a UTC timestamp, the JavaScript code is converting to the users' timezone, which (assuming in the US) is four to seven hours earlier than midnight of 8/15/2007, which is why it is returning one day earlier.

As per the forum link:

<a href="http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/53385-SQLServer-datetime-field-doesn-t-translate-properly-as-javascript-date-object?highlight=date" target="_blank">http://forums.arcgis.com/threads/53385-SQLServer-datetime-field-doesn-t-translate-properly-as-javascript-date-object?highlight=date</a>

Below is the method which we need to use

function CustomDate(featureTime) {

console.log("formatting function called", featureTime);

// get the timezone offset from UTC time

var tzoffset = new Date().getTimezoneOffset();

// add the time zone offset to the timestamp

var utctime = dojo.date.add(new Date(featureTime), "minute", tzoffset);

return dojo.date.locale.format(utctime, { "selector": "date" });

}

Steps to Reproduce