message: createReply time zone set to UTC time

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message: createReply time zone set to UTC time

Jayrag Pareek 1

In our .Net MVC application, we are using Microsoft Graph to retrieve mail messages from a mailbox and then send a reply. For creating the reply, we use the

message.CreateReply()

The sent datetime is always in the utc timezone in the mail body when we create the reply. For example, in the mail body it says:

From: Melissa van Dijk
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2021 9:51:49 AM (wrong timestamp)
To: Melissa van Dijk
Subject: Re:Meet for lunch?

When replying via Outlook webmail, we get a correct timestamp.

Is this a bug or do we have to correct this timestamp ourselves? Or do we need to pass the timezone with the REST call somehow?

Austin Davis 1 Reputation point

2022-02-04T16:32:23.81+00:00

Hello. Did you ever find a fix for this? We are still experiencing this issue.
Jayrag Pareek 1 Reputation point

2022-08-23T10:06:57.34+00:00

No I'm still waiting for a reply
Glen Scales 4,446 Reputation points

2022-08-24T00:18:58.587+00:00
That bug should be fixed now or at least in the process of rolling out (it works for me okay).

The problem previously is that it didn't honour the prefer header when you used CreateReply, if you aren't using this header it will still be UTC eg you should have something like

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/messages/AA..A=/CreateReply HTTP/1.1 Authorization: Bearer eyJ0e Prefer: outlook.timezone="Eastern Standard Time"

and in the response you should see

HTTP/1.1 201 Created Preference-Applied: outlook.timezone="Eastern Standard Time"
Andrey Stukalin 6 Reputation points

2022-09-01T09:16:12.417+00:00

@Glen Scales wow thanks for the update? Will the fix address the /forward endpoint as well, because it has basically the same issue,
Glen Scales 4,446 Reputation points

2022-09-02T02:33:29.273+00:00

Yes from what I see that works fine in my tenant