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Siebel Applications Administration Guide > Ongoing Application Administration Tasks > Administering Global Time Zone SupportThe time zone records that are shipped as seed data with Siebel Business Applications include the world time zones, each with a start date of 1 January 1900. The world time zones that are available at the time of a Siebel release are included in the release. Time zone detail records are included with time zone records. Time zone detail records are important for tracking minor differences in time zones. For example, there is a time zone detail record for each of the continental United States time zones with a start date of 1 January 2007, which reflects the changes in start and end dates for daylight savings time for 2007. If the daylight savings time start and end dates change again, then add a new record for the year of the change. For more information about global time zone support, see Siebel Global Deployment Guide. Use the Time Zone administration view to:
Tasks for administering time zones include: Modifying Time ZonesYou rarely modify a time zone's regional settings. However, you might want to modify other time zone settings such as the display name or daylight savings rules, because these settings occasionally change. NOTE: You can add, but not delete time zones. Although you can inactivate time zones, do not do so when the time zones are in use because the inactivation might cause integration issues with Siebel CRM Desktop and Siebel Server Sync for Microsoft Exchange Server.
Maintaining Translations of Time ZonesYou maintain translations of the text-based fields for each time zone using the Time Zone Administration view. To maintain translations of time zones
Date and TimestampsThe date and time used for timestamping 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 computer and takes the date and time from that computer. If the Global Time Zone feature is enabled, then fields of data type UTCDATETIME are converted to UTC during operations for the Siebel Application Object Manager. For more information, see Siebel Global Deployment Guide. |
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