SuiteTalk (Web Services) Platform Guide - NetSuite

TypesComplex Types93• In endpoints prior to 2010.2, invalid values are treated as false.• dateTime: represents integer-valued year, month, day, hour and minute properties, adecimal-valued second property and a boolean timezoned property (timestamp). Forexample, 2005-09-21T15:24:00.000-07:00, where 2005-09-21 is the date, 15:24:00.000is the time and -07:00 is the timezone offset.Important: When posting dateTime values to NetSuite, it is recommended that youindicate timezone. If no timezone is indicated, the “America/Los_Angeles”timezone will be used. (Note that for backward compatibility reasonsNetSuite does not use GMT.)Note: SOAP encoding is NOT sensitive to your NetSuite Timezone preference as definedin the user preferences. When using Axis, an Axis Web Services client encodes inGMT, regardless of how the machine/JVM is configured. Netsuite will generallyencode in PST.• date: represents the top-open intervals of exactly one day in length on the timelines ofdateTime, beginning on the beginning moment of each day• time: represents an instant of time that recurs every dayNote: Date, time and dateTime types listed above conform to the ISO 8601 standard forinternational dates.Please see http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/RED-xmlschema-2-20010502/datatypes#dateTime formore details.Complex TypesComplex types are structured types built by aggregating elements of simple or previouslydefined complex types. NetSuite complex types are defined in the platform core and platformcore types XSDs. All NetSuite record types ultimately reference one of these complex types.NetSuite complex types include the following:• Passport• Record• RecordList• BaseRef• RecordRef• CustomRecordRef• ListOrRecordRef• Status• StatusDetail• NullFieldSuiteTalk Platform Guide