title: Should dateTime elements include time zone information in SOAP messages?
body: <p>I've been searching for a definitive answer to this, and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the XML schema data types document</a> seems to suggest that timezones are accepted, yet I found at least one implementation which does not properly convert time zones ( NUSOAP ).</p>
  
  <p>To make sure that the problem is not at my end, I'd like to know if a format such as <code>2009-11-05T11:53:22+02:00</code> is indeed valid and should be parsed with timezone information, i.e. as <code>2009-11-05T13:53:22</code>.</p>