Datetime of Records UTC vs. Local Time

Hi, I notice that the Integrator automatically converts the datetime of records to UTC upon insertion. In Studio however, we want the analysis / records to reflect our local time instead. The Endeca Server Data Loading Guide http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37502_01/server.751/es_data_loading/toc.htm#dateTime%20property mentions about the possibility of updating a record with two datetime properties. How is this achieved using Integrator? My records seem to be converted automatically into UTC even when I append the timezone. Thanks!

I'm afraid this explanation doesn't quite address the question... but it's close.
The real question is what "based on UTC time" means, vs. "UTC time"
Assume your SCCM server is set to deploy the update at 8PM UTC, but Windows time on your SCCM server (due to the time zone it is in) is configured for UTC-2, which is 6PM when "true" UTC is at 8PM. When does the update happen? 8PM (true
UTC time), or 6PM (SCCM server time "based on" UTC", which includes the offset)? I understand that all target servers will deploy simultaneously (since we selected UTC instead of local), but is that simultaneous time "true" UTC,
or the SCCM server UTC +/- offset?

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Is there a smooth way to convert a time stamp from UTC time into the local time (e.g. CET)?
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TIA!
/Armin

Hi Armin
The statement does not only convert from local time zone to UTC you can specifiy any timezone:
CONVERT TIME STAMP time_stamp TIME ZONE tz
        INTO [DATE dat] [TIME tim]
        [DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME dst].
The following statement can also be used to convert from date time to timestamp.
CONVERT DATE dat [TIME tim [DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME dst]]
        INTO TIME STAMP time_stamp TIME ZONE tz.
Regards
Faaiez

Converting UTC dates to local time

Hello all. I have some data I imported that has a date column containing dates spanning a number of years. The dates are in the UTC timezone.
I need to display the dates in the local time zone that was in effect at the time. I've seen many fine examples of converting from one time zone to another. But I need it to be smarter than that. For example, date/times (this year) prior to 03/09/2008 2AM should display in EST (my zone in effect then), while date/times on/after then should display in EDT.
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SQL> DROP   TABLE imported_events;
Table dropped.
SQL> CREATE TABLE imported_events (event_date TIMESTAMP(0) WITH TIME ZONE);
Table created.
SQL> BEGIN
2 INSERT INTO imported_events VALUES ( '10-JAN-08 2:00:00 PM UTC');
3 INSERT INTO imported_events VALUES ( '08-MAR-08 2:00:00 PM UTC');
4 INSERT INTO imported_events VALUES ( '09-MAR-08 6:59:00 AM UTC');
5 INSERT INTO imported_events VALUES ( '09-MAR-08 7:01:00 AM UTC');
6 INSERT INTO imported_events VALUES ( '09-MAR-08 2:00:00 PM UTC');
7 INSERT INTO imported_events VALUES ( '10-MAR-08 2:00:00 PM UTC');
8 INSERT INTO imported_events VALUES ( '09-JUN-08 2:00:00 PM UTC');
9 COMMIT;
10 END;
11 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> COLUMN ROWNUM         FORMAT 99
SQL> COLUMN event_date_utc FORMAT A25
SQL> COLUMN offset_local   FORMAT 99
SQL> COLUMN offset_eastern FORMAT 99
SQL> SELECT ROWNUM
2        ,event_date event_date_utc
3        ,TO_CHAR(CAST((event_date AT LOCAL) AS DATE),'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') date_local
4        ,(CAST((event_date AT LOCAL) AS DATE) - CAST(event_date AS DATE))*24 offset_local
5        ,TO_CHAR(CAST((event_date AT TIME ZONE 'US/Eastern') AS DATE),'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS') date_eastern
6        ,(CAST((event_date AT TIME ZONE 'US/Eastern') AS DATE) - CAST(event_date AS DATE))*24 offset_eastern
7    FROM imported_events
8   ORDER BY 1;
ROWNUM EVENT_DATE_UTC            DATE_LOCAL          OFFSET_LOCAL DATE_EASTERN        OFFSET_EASTERN
     1 10-JAN-08 02.00.00 PM UTC 2008-01-10 10:00:00           -4 2008-01-10 09:00:00             -5
     2 08-MAR-08 02.00.00 PM UTC 2008-03-08 10:00:00           -4 2008-03-08 09:00:00             -5
     3 09-MAR-08 06.59.00 AM UTC 2008-03-09 02:59:00           -4 2008-03-09 01:59:00             -5
     4 09-MAR-08 07.01.00 AM UTC 2008-03-09 03:01:00           -4 2008-03-09 02:01:00             -5
     5 09-MAR-08 02.00.00 PM UTC 2008-03-09 10:00:00           -4 2008-03-09 09:00:00             -5
     6 10-MAR-08 02.00.00 PM UTC 2008-03-10 10:00:00           -4 2008-03-10 09:00:00             -5
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SQL>

Converting timestamp from local time to UTC

Is there a smooth way to convert a timestamp containing local time to UTC time?
The statement:
CONVERT TIME STAMP time_stamp TIME ZONE tz
INTO [DATE dat] [TIME tim]
[DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME dst].
Consideres time_tamp to be UTC time and then tries to convert it to the time zone specified in tz. What I would like to have done is the opposite, to have time_stamp represent the local time and then convert it back to UTC.
TIA!
/Armin

Hi Armin.
Just turn your statement and you will be fine
DATA: date TYPE sydatum VALUE '20070525',
      time TYPE syuzeit VALUE '173030',
      cet TYPE tzonref-tzone VALUE 'CET',
      utc TYPE tzonref-tzone VALUE 'UTC',
      tstp TYPE timestamp.
CONVERT DATE date TIME time INTO TIME STAMP tstp TIME ZONE cet .
The output will be 15:30:30 at 25th of May 2007.
I used CET as example, just use the timezone your date is representing. The result is formatted as UTC.
Actually if you only have the timestamp, for this solution you have to convert it into date/time first.
Use
CONVERT TIME STAMP tstp TIME ZONE utc INTO DATE date TIME time.
to do so.
Regards,
Timo.

Conversion between local time and UTC: Anomaly at Daylight saving time edge

Hi all,
I want to convert back and forth between local time including all peculiarities like DST etc. This is the core of my code:
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    Calendar cal=Calendar.getInstance(tz);
    cal.setTime(d);
    int offs=(cal.get( Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET )+cal.get( Calendar.DST_OFFSET ));
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    Calendar cal2=Calendar.getInstance(TimeZone.getTimeZone("Etc/UTC"));
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The general case works as expected:
Date (fourteen digits, 'x'=Exit): 20050909190000
Entered date: Fr, 9.9.2005, 19:00
zone_offset: 3600000, dst_offset: 3600000, offset: 7200000
Etc/UTC
Date in UTC: Fr, 9.9.2005, 17:00I live in timezone Europe/Berlin, so during DST we have GMT+2. Let's see what's happening on christmas (non-DST):
Date (fourteen digits, 'x'=Exit): 20051224180000
Entered date: Sa, 24.12.2005, 18:00
zone_offset: 3600000, dst_offset: 0, offset: 3600000
Etc/UTC
Date in UTC: Sa, 24.12.2005, 17:00As expected!
Now, we enter the dark zone of DST: Each year DST is turned on and off and it seems as if this leads to problems in both cases. Let's start with the next event of this case: At Oct., 30th, 2005, DST is turned off between 2:00 and 3:00 at night. So, we have once 2:30 with DST and (one hour later) 2:30 again without DST. Java, however, garbles things completely (I'm leaving the unneeded lines of my debug output out now):
Entered date: So, 30.10.2005, 01:59
zone_offset: 3600000, dst_offset: 3600000, offset: 7200000
Date in UTC: Sa, 29.10.2005, 23:59
Entered date: So, 30.10.2005, 02:00
zone_offset: 3600000, dst_offset: 0, offset: 3600000
Date in UTC: So, 30.10.2005, 02:00
Entered date: So, 30.10.2005, 02:30
zone_offset: 3600000, dst_offset: 0, offset: 3600000
Date in UTC: So, 30.10.2005, 02:30
Entered date: So, 30.10.2005, 02:59
zone_offset: 3600000, dst_offset: 0, offset: 3600000
Date in UTC: So, 30.10.2005, 02:59
Entered date: So, 30.10.2005, 03:00
zone_offset: 3600000, dst_offset: 0, offset: 3600000
Date in UTC: So, 30.10.2005, 02:00So, directly before the DST change, offset is computed correctly. From 3:00 onward, also. But in between, Calendar does neither take an offset of two hours (what would be somehow correct) nor one hour (also somehow correct). Even though it predicts to take the one-hour zone offset into consideration, "GMT" time is actually the same as local time.
Things become even wireder at the other edge of the DST time range: This year, DST began on March, 27th, 2005: Let's see what is happening:
Entered date: So, 27.3.2005, 01:59
zone_offset: 3600000, dst_offset: 0, offset: 3600000
Date in UTC: So, 27.3.2005, 00:59
Entered date: So, 27.3.2005, 02:00
zone_offset: 3600000, dst_offset: 3600000, offset: 7200000
Date in UTC: So, 27.3.2005, 00:00
Entered date: So, 27.3.2005, 02:30
zone_offset: 3600000, dst_offset: 3600000, offset: 7200000
Date in UTC: So, 27.3.2005, 00:30
Entered date: So, 27.3.2005, 02:59
zone_offset: 3600000, dst_offset: 3600000, offset: 7200000
Date in UTC: So, 27.3.2005, 00:59
Entered date: So, 27.3.2005, 03:00
zone_offset: 3600000, dst_offset: 3600000, offset: 7200000
Date in UTC: So, 27.3.2005, 00:00
Entered date: So, 27.3.2005, 04:59
zone_offset: 3600000, dst_offset: 3600000, offset: 7200000
Date in UTC: So, 27.3.2005, 01:59
Entered date: So, 27.3.2005, 05:00
zone_offset: 3600000, dst_offset: 3600000, offset: 7200000
Date in UTC: So, 27.3.2005, 03:00While at 1:59, everything is ok, 2:00 is handled as within DST. That's ok, as the hour between 2:00 and 3:00 did not exist in that night in our local time zone, but at 3:00 the system totally screws up things as it suddenly subtracts three hours (while pretending to use two hours). This goes on until 5:00 in the morning when time is shown correctly again.
Can anyone help me? What am I doing wrong? How do I actually convert correctly between a DST-aware local time zone and GMT/UTC?
Best regards,
Dirk

Well, I would not say I did "just about everything" wrong. Actually, Calendar is not GMT-only as it has time zone information and converts its internal time according to that information if I use the getTime() function (what I do).
In my applications, I handle dates in my own data structures. My EDate object (which is part of the QJCC library hosted on SourceForge) stores years, months, days, minutes, hours, and seconds seperately. Using this class, I managed to get an actually working time zone conversion this way:
public void toUTC(TimeZone tz) {
    Calendar cal=Calendar.getInstance(tz);
    cal.clear();
    cal.set(year,month-1,day,hour,minute,second);
    int offs=(cal.get( Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET )+cal.get( Calendar.DST_OFFSET ));
    //System.out.println("zone offset: "+cal.get( Calendar.ZONE_OFFSET )+", DST offset: "+cal.get( Calendar.DST_OFFSET ));
    second-=(offs/1000);
    normalize();
normalize() does something similar to the lenient stuff in Calendar.
I will now write the method for the other direction. The most interesting item will be the answer to the question:
"Tell me the correct DST_OFFSET in TimeZone X when I have the actual point of time given in UTC."
Perhaps someone can give me a hint?!?

Is there any way to set the SCCM system to use local time instead of UTC?

We have ConfigMgr 2012 in our environment. We are in EST.
Is there any way to set the SCCM system to use local time instead of UTC?
When we try to deploy packages, if you don’t specify the time, it reverts to UTC which for us is off by 5 hours.

Which times are you talking about? Deployment start times or deadlines? Those could be set to UTC *or* client local time.
Torsten Meringer | http://www.mssccmfaq.de

Exchange Active Sync UTC Daylight Saving Time

Color me a bit confused. I am attempting to write an IOS client application to communicate with Exchange ActiveSync and display calendar information. But I am seeing some conflicting information in the protocol docs when compared to what I am getting from
Exchange. Either that or I am somehow misinterpreting one or the other.
My intent is to save an appointment in my local database in Coordinated Universal Time and then have the UI read in the information and display it as appropriate to the local timezone. In this way an recurring appointment created before daylight saving time
for Noon will still be at the same time of day in local time as an appointment created during daylight saving time for noon. But they are not.
My understanding of the documentation is as such:
In MS-ASCAL pdf section 2.2.2.40 (roughly page 34) it says for Start Time that : ...the value of this element is a dateTime data type as specified in MS-ASDTYPE section 2.3.
Moving to MS-ASDTYPE section 2.3 (roughly page 7) the dateTime value is specified in the format of ISO-8601 and all dates are given in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
Looking up coordinated universal time I see that UTC does not changed with the seasons as local or civil time does and therefore DOES NOT support daylight saving time. This makes sense, as DST is decidedly local and is ignored by many areas. You cannot know
from the perspective of UTC whether or not to apply a DST offset without knowing what timezone and area the time represents, therefore no daylight saving time can be supported. Based on this information I should be able to just slap the dates into my database
as they are and merely have the UI adjust itself to display them properly.
However, as a tested I began seeing a divergence of an hour between the two appointments in the database before the UI has even read them. To confirm this I created two recurring appointments representing Lunch at 12 noon local time. One that starts on March
1st 2014 (Standard Time) and one that starts on March 10th 2014 (daylight saving time) in the eastern timezone. This should be March X 2014 at 1700 hours in both cases should it not?
In the WBXML/XML that I am receiving I am getting two different times. The appointment that starts during standard time gives me a start time of 20140301T170000Z. The appointment that starts after daylight saving time is in effect locally gives me 20140301T160000Z.
The difference between the two times is 1 hour, which is the daylight saving time offset. It is my perception based on everything that I have read both in the microsoft protocol documentation and outside it that these two times should be the same and that whatever
client that gets to display them should be the one putting the offset in place as needed. Noon local time is noon local time but local time is the province of the local municipality/timezone, not that of UTC.
So my question is what exactly is going on here? Are the start/stop/date stamp date times in UTC or not. If they are in UTC, then why are they offset by an hour instead of being at the same time? Obviously outlook displays these correctly for local time,
because both appear at noon. But in my case my database contains locally adjusted times instead of the UTC times I thought I was getting which is throwing off when those appointments appear in the UI.
Can someone please clarify what's going on here and what I should be seeing?
Thanks.
E

Thanks for the reply, however after doing what is said the problem still remains. I did not try the manual approach, because of the time that would take with calendars that change at least daily.
I am running the latest update of ICal and IPod, you would think this would have been addressed with one of the updates to allow the sync to work correctly with 5th generation IPods.
I am going to try and turn off day light savings time set the clock to a Central Time zone and see if that works, I do not cross time zones much, anymore.
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Local time

Let's say I have a function with a signature like this: private function (date:Date) { trace(date.datetime); } ... when I send a date value into this function does the time portion gets converted into local time automatically? Thanks

I think you are describing a classic date management problem that has no single good solution. The problem is that if you store dates in local time and don’t store timezone information, you don’t have enough data to view the date as desired on other clients especially if they are in other time zones. You will find other past discussions on this topic.
The basic problem is that, if you have, say, a west coast office and an east coast office and the west coast office records a transaction at 9am and stores it as 9am, the east coast office doesn’t know whether it happened at 9am their time or 12pm their time. There is another version of the problem where things are stored in GMT but you really want to reproduce the local time display at the office that made the transaction.
One solution offered is to not use date/time and simply use a string. Otherwise, you have to know which office made the transaction and what time zone it is in.

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Hi All,
I want to get record insert date and time in a table. There is no datetime column in my table. Are there any possibility to get date and time for each record?
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Thats not easy. If your transaction info still resides on active portion of the log you can use fn_dblog to read out the time at which the transactions occurs. This is useful only if you try it shortly after transaction.
the code would look like this
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FROM fn_dblog(null,null)
WHERE [Transaction Name] LIKE 'INSERT%'
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Also see
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http://solutioncenter.apexsql.com/read-a-sql-server-transaction-log/
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Hi,
Assume that an application with db data are supposed to be installed in London (in a data center) whereas ... all users who would connect to this db are in Greece.
The db time zone would be of London ... which means that the date-time data would be saved to the database to this time ... whereas the local time zone(of users) is different... The local users (in Greece) must see the local time and not that of London....
Of course , a solution to this could be of using for datetime db columns the TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE datatype instead of date.
But this imposes a different data schema.... (replacement of all date datatype to TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE) , which cannot be done.....
Can you consider any other solution....?????
Note: I use Oracle10g v.2 .....
Thanks....
Sim

I do believe you can set the client time zone via OS environment variables I think that is not practical and possible since all Greek people , theoretically of course, could use the services provided by the web application....
So , how to set the client time zone via OS env variable in client machines of all people who i do not know if ever would connect or not....?????
However how can it be done....(the settting of the client time zone via OS environment variables)???
Am i considering something wrong....?????
though the best solution would probably be to convert the application to use timestamps with time zone info.To make this solution applicable , i consider that i have to alter all date datatype of the schema to timestamp with local time zone datatype.... and of course all the code.... in the application.......
It may be the better solution but it cannot be done since ... the tables are over 2000 , the db packages/procedures/functions are approximately 100 , let alone the application package/procedure/function......
I think , considering the conditions expressed above , the best solution is using the current_date function in order to register the datetime according to the specific time zone ... I simply have to replace the sysdate with current_date.....
The only problem , which would make me to follow the solution with timestamp with local time zone datatype, is when people from different areas in the wolrd - with various time zones would use the application......
And something else....
Don't forget that Greece has just one time zone...+02:00
Thanks.... for your ideas
Sim

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When setting the replication schedule for a distribution point in ConfigMgr 2012, is the schedule represented as UTC time or local time?

Unfortunately not, but google translate usually does a great job (I can read and unterstand the translated version ;-) )
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Mail message viewer-can I change time zone for "time received" & "time sent" to my local time?

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I had the same situation on my current business trip. Home = SF (Pacific time), current location = Houston (Central time, 2 hours later). For a message I just sent (and received a copy of) at 6:34 AM local (Houston) time, Mail (v6.6, in Mountain Lion 10.8.5) was displaying Date Received as 4:34 AM. I can tell 'ya, it's *not* 4:34 AM where I'm sitting
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Mismatch in the local time when using the RWTime.

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RWTime is showing +1 Hr excess for the local time.
Compared the time with the ouput of unix date command as well.
$ cat time.cc
#include <iostream>
#include <ctime>
// Roguewave headers
#include <rw/rwtime.h>
#include <rw/rwdate.h>
#include <rw/zone.h>
int main()
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$ ./test ; date
The local date and time is: Fri Jul 1 14:55:18 2011
The UTC date and time is:Fri Jul 1 09:25:18 2011
[RW] The local date and time is: 07/01/11 15:55:18
[RW] The UTC date and time is : 07/01/11 09:25:18
Fri Jul 1 14:55:18 IST 2011
$The header rwdate.h has following definition for default constructor.
RWTime() : sec(RWTime::currentTime()) {;}     // current timeSeems like a bug in RWTIme::currentTime() functionality.
Could someone conform the same (or) am i using RWTime wrongly ?
Thanks & Regards,
Sreekar

I tried your code using the same compiler on OEL 5.4, which is based on RHEL 5.4. I got correct answers for my time zone -- US-Pacific with Daylight Savings Time.
What time zone are you in (GMT+1 or GMT+2), and is DST supposed to be in effect?
The likely sources of the problem are that your machine does not set DST correctly, or that you are in an area for which RW Tools.h++ cannot provide a correct answer. (There are some places where the local rules can't be expressed in the limited representations of time zones and DST in Tools.h++)
What is the value of environment variable TZ?
Edited by: Steve_Clamage on Jul 5, 2011 9:31 AM

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My universal and rtc is the right time and my local time is incorrect. How can I make them all 19:00:00? I tried reading the time wiki and searched for various articles and I'm still confused.

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