Save time zone information for DateTimes. Solr returns DateTimes rather than Strings. #923
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As it stands, time zone information is not stored in Fedora, instead it's just always set to Z. All time information is effectively shifted by your local time offset if you take time zones into account. This results in unexpected behaviour where timestamps for example end up in the future if your local time zone offset is positive.
There seems to be a bug in RDF::Literal::DateTime#to_s which prints out time zone as Z if you initialise the object with a DateTime rather than a String, so this should be fixed there. But a similar bug is present also in the monkey patch applied in lib/active_fedora.rb which is fixed in this PR.
The PR also makes Solr-loaded documents return DateTime objects rather than Strings when indexing type has been set to date. What used to happen is that the same field which returned a DateTime object when loaded from Fedora would return a String when loaded from Solr.