Time Zone Issue in D6.5

Hello Everyone,

Our client wants the creation date to be consistent across all time zones.We have users in UK and because of the locale functionality they see different times. I was thinking of capturing the creation date in a separate attribute as a string when the document gets created. Are there any alternative solutions for this particular issue ?

Thanks

Hari

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DCTM_Guru

Then disable the timezone feature so that there will be no offset.

haripsv

Hi Johnny,

Thanks for the reply. No we dont want do that. They still want the other dates(e.g modify date, doc date) to be in their respective timezones.They pull out a report from the database and compare it with Webtop. A user in UK will see a different time in Webtop when they compare it with the report.( Content Server is in EST).

Also is it possible to customize the jsp to display the creation date as a string instead of creating a new attribute ?

DCTM_Guru

I havent done this before, but I dont see why you couldnt bind text or label control to date field.

RalfKahrl

All date fields are stored in UTC time (new D6.5 repository) and displayed in local client-timezone.

If you customize your jsp you still have the problem to identify the timezone in which the document was created.