Delivery time zone

Hello,

When I setup delivery time, I expect fax will be send at the time I set. What is time zone for this? How can I specify time zone or what time zone I have to use.

Now I used Estern time, but after I set release time in the future, I recieve it immediately.

JobOptionsType jobOptions = new JobOptionsType();
jobOptions.Delivery = DateTime.Now.AddHours(3);

Thanks,
Alexander.

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skamens

The Delivery element actually has sub-elements that must be specified to get the effect you want.

You will need to do something like this:

JobOptionsType jobOptions = new JobOptionsType();
DeliveryType delivery = new DeliveryType();
delivery.Schedule = "scheduled";
delivery.StartTime = DateTime.Now.AddHours(3);
jobOptions.Delivery = delivery;

As I said before, I'm not a C# expert, but this is the basic idea.

ashapovalov@marketwire.com

It looks like I can't setup time zone for fax distribution. It does not have somthing like time zone.

Is it any way to check what time zone are at fax distribution servers? Where is your servers located? I believe it should be Eastern time, Pacific time or UTC?

skamens

You don't need to specify (or know) the time zone of the delivery nodes - the system will determine the correct time for you.

You just need to ensure that your input correctly specifies *some* time zone, so that we can determine the exact point in time when the fax should start.

This should in general be taken care of by the low level code.

If you have some processing ID's we can evaluate what we're seeing.

ashapovalov@marketwire.com

just in case somebody has the same question
you have to specifi Kind property of datetime
DateTime dt = DateTime.SpecifyKind(DateTime.Now, DateTimeKind.Utc)

If the datetime kind property is Undefined, fax distribution probably will not work correct.

when sending request to Easylink api the datetime converts to string

dt.ToString("o"); // this format contains timezone

skamens

Thanks for the update! This will be helpful to others.