1.8 Creating Time Zone Offsets for PeopleSoft Time and Labor

PeopleSoft PeopleTools stores time and date information in only one time zone- the "Base Time Zone"- that you select at the time of installation and should never change. The base time zone may be set to the time zone of the company headquarters or perhaps to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), also known as UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).

When employees enter the hours that they worked in PeopleSoft Time and Labor, they report time according to the local time zone and PeopleSoft PeopleTools stores the information in the base time zone. The Time Administration process then converts the base time back to the local time for rules processing.

To do this, the system must know the time zone “offsets,” or the differences between the local time and base time. The following steps detail how to select the base time zone and create time zone offsets.

To select the base time zone and create time zone offsets:

1. Select PeopleTools, Utilities, Administration, PeopleTools Options.

2. On the PeopleTools Options page, in the Base Time Zone field, browse to select the time zone in which you want all reported time to be stored.

3. Select PeopleTools, Utilities, International, Define Time Zones.

4. On the Define Time Zones Data page (and Daylight Savings page, if applicable), change the default settings.

   The Define Time Zones Data page and Daylight Savings page display the default time zone settings that PeopleSoft PeopleTools delivers. You can change the settings on these pages to customize the information for your organization.

5. On the Define Time Zones Data page, create time zone offsets by clicking the Generate Query Offsets button to populate the time zone offsets table with values that represent the differences between the local and base time zones.

6. Enter the Start and End dates for the offset generation.

   • Specify Start Date: Determine 5 years prior to current date and use year begin date as Start Date.

   • Specify End Date: Determine 5 years in the future, from current date and use year end date as End Date.

7. Click OK.

8. Click Save.