incorrect time in nunit xml file

[sqlenders]

General summary of the issue

The time in Nunit XML file is the local time. Not the UTC time. Therefor all my tests are run in the future.

Describe your environment

Pester version : 5.1.1 C:\Program Files\WindowsPowerShell\Modules\Pester\5.1.1\Pester.psm1
PowerShell version : 5.1.14409.1018
OS version : Microsoft Windows NT 6.3.9600.0

Steps to reproduce

Run any test and create a nunit.xml file.
Look at the second line and in the end you will see the time. This time is my local time (CET) and not the UTC time
When uploading this file to azure devops, it assumes it is UTC and all my tests are now in the future.

Expected Behavior

test-results xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="nunit_schema_2.5.xsd" name="Pester" total="62" errors="0" failures="0" not-run="92" inconclusive="0" ignored="0" skipped="0" invalid="0" date="2021-03-19" time="18:25:01"

Current Behavior

test-results xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="nunit_schema_2.5.xsd" name="Pester" total="62" errors="0" failures="0" not-run="92" inconclusive="0" ignored="0" skipped="0" invalid="0" date="2021-03-19" time="19:25:01"

Possible Solution? (optional)

Convert the time to UTC time. Powershell has some functions for it.
Something like
$TimeNow = Get-Date
get-date $TimeNow -f "MMddyy HH:mm:ss"
$TimeNow.ToUniversalTime().ToString("MMddyy HH:mm:ss")

[fflaten]

Is UTC standard in NUnit-reports or Azure DevOps-specific? I'm wondering if a default change would break most CI.
Can't find a time-zone requirement for NUnit2.5 which we use, but NUnit3 XML-format specifies UTC:

start-time The UTC time that the test run started.
end-time The UTC time that the test run ended.

https://docs.nunit.org/articles/nunit/technical-notes/usage/Test-Result-XML-Format.html

Pester uses local time in both NUnit2.5-report and Passthru-object. Should UTC be a global option in PesterConfiguration-maybe?

[nohwnd]

I think we should finally move to the latest nunit xml format. It's way better specified than 2.5. Adding to next milestone as it is a quite big task.

[nohwnd]

nunit/nunit#3879 (comment) check this for the latest nunit docs.

[nohwnd]

@fflaten do you want to work on this in this milestone (maybe two more weeks before "final" beta?) or should I move it to the next one.

[fflaten]

Might not make this one but it'll try. Worked on nunit3 a couple of days ago, but it's been a busy week.