Implementing day light saving in OBIEE 10g or 11g

Hello guys
I am wondering how can we implement daylight savings in OBIEE?
For example, we have 2 locales: south america and central U.S & Canada. They both are GMT -6, but when we actually change the locale to either, there are difference at this time of the year. South America displays GMT - 6 but Central America & canada is converting to GMT -5 despite the time zone still being GMT -6. This is probably due to date light savings in America..
So is there a system variable that captures daylight savings?
If I want to apply filters at hourly level or timestamp level, I will need to know the offset number that I can use to subtract from the GMT time..
So any ideas on how to deal with daylight savings?
Thanks

Hi,
UCCX uses its own time in the server to lookup the time. you need to configure the proper timezone for your UCCX. if shangai and US change start using daylight saving at the same date, you don't need to change your script. if not, unfortunately you need to change the time in the script itself.
HTH
Anas
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