| Title: | *OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference |
| Notice: | Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1 |
| Moderator: | IOSG::PYE |
| Created: | Thu Jan 30 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Tue Jan 23 1996 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 4343 |
| Total number of notes: | 18308 |
A customer has an ALL-IN-1 system physically located in the EST time
zone. Some of the users are in EST some in CST and PST. The customer
would like to help the users in CST and PST time zones feel as if the
system were in the same time zone as the user, especially when
reading/sending mail. We talked about setting a flag in the user's
profile and then checking and adjusting in places like MAILMEMOx.BLP.
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Angela
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1101.1 | Use the time-zone feature | FAILTE::LAAHS | An accumulation of Celts | Fri Jul 24 1992 12:38 | 24 |
Angela,
ALL-IN-1 already has support for this. You need to change the time zone
record from the System Managers Manage Messaging Menu.
You firstly need to decided on a common network time and then add the
time zone record for each node. The time zone record containe the
difference from the network time. (Can't remeber whether you need a +
or - hours though. I do know its the opposite of the time zone record
in Message Router though!)
The affect of having a time-zone record is that end-users will see the
dates on mail messages as if they had been created in their own
time-zone and not that of the senders. So for, example if I create a
mail message right now in the UK and send it to someone in the States
they will see it as being created 6:40am local time instead of 11:40am
my time. The time zone record in this case should be set to +or- 5
hours.
Hope this makes senses. Remember to log out/in of ALL-IN-1 after changing
the time zone record.
HTH,
Kevin
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| 1101.2 | Doesn't .1 require multiple nodes? .0 has only one | IOSG::TALLETT | Arranging bits for a living... | Fri Jul 24 1992 21:00 | 1 |
| 1101.3 | Or hard code "Local time" | MDCRAB::HOWARD | Our business is computers not money | Sat Jul 25 1992 05:09 | 8 |
I had a customer with this situation. He changed the boilerplate to say
"Eastern" and removed the time zone field. I believe that time zone is a
local symbol (#ZONE) You could set it for each user *after* the MAIL INIT
function. I might just remove it completely and make people assume that it
was local time. A final option would be to put some processing into the
boilerplate to compute the value of the time displayed in local mode.
Ben
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