Bookshelf v7.5: Administering Global Time Zone Support

Administering Global Time Zone Support

The time zones records that are shipped with Siebel applications as seed data include the 74 world time zones. These are the same time zones used by Microsoft in its operating systems. Use the Time Zone administration view to:

Edit the text descriptions of time zones and their abbreviations

Manage the active status of time zones to control which time zones are available to end users for use in the applications

Manage multilingual translations to control how time zone information is displayed to users in multiple languages

Tasks for administering time zones include:

For more information on global time zone support, see Global Deployment Guide.

Modifying Time Zones

You will rarely need to modify a time zone's regional settings. However, you may want to modify other time zone settings such as the display name or daylight savings rules, as these occasionally change.

NOTE: You cannot add or delete time zones.

To modify time zone settings

From the application-level menu, choose View > Site Map > Application Administration > Time Zone Administration.

In the Time Zone list, select the time zone record you want to modify.

Modify the fields as necessary.

Some fields are described in the following table.


Field	Description
Name	Name of time zone.
Standard Abbreviation	The abbreviation for the time zone.
UTC Offset	Offset, in minutes, from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) when daylight savings is not in effect.
DST Abbreviation	The abbreviations for daylight savings time (DST).
DST Bias	Incremental DST offset, in minutes, from UTC when DST is not in effect.
DST Start Ordinal	Part of the rule that determines when DST starts. For example, if the rule is the first Sunday in April, First is defined in this field.
DST Start Day	Part of the rule that determines when DST starts. For example, if the rule is the first Sunday in April, Sunday is defined in this field.
DST Start Month	Part of the rule that determines when DST starts. For example, if the rule is the first Sunday in April, April is defined in this field.
DST Start Time	Start time for DST.

Maintaining Translations of Time Zones

You maintain translations of the text-based fields for each time zone using the Time Zone Administration view.

To maintain translations of time zones

From the application-level menu, choose View > Site Map > Application Administration > Time Zone Administration.

In the Time Zone list, select the time zone you want to translate.

In the Time Zone Translation list, add a record and complete the necessary fields, including the translation of the Name field for the selected language.

Repeat Step 3 for each language required for translation.

Date and Time Stamps

The date and time used for time-stamping records are obtained by the Siebel Server. When a remote user runs the Siebel client in disconnected mode, the Siebel Server runs on the user's machine and takes the date and time from that machine.

If global time zone support is enabled, the server converts the date and time value to UTC.