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About Enabling UTC for Existing Deployments

If you are upgrading a non-UTC deployment of a prior version and are now deploying with UTC, or if you have decided to convert an existing non-UTC implementation to UTC, you must perform applicable tasks described in the following topics:

• Setting UTC System Preferences
• Setting the Database Server to UTC (this task is optional)
• Enabling Custom Date-time Fields and Columns for UTC (this task also applies whenever you create custom date-time fields)
• Converting Historical Data to UTC

See also Administering Time Zones.