Time Zone issues in Global Instance

Hi,
Can someone give best practice in addressing issues in Global instance due to change in date & time.
Say
1) A user is in America and system time zone is GMT
2) Order screen: sched ship date shown based on user preference as GMT-5hrs. Say it is 30-Jun-2008 7:30 pm
3) However, in the back end the data is stored as 1-Jul-2008 12:30 AM
4) This certainly seems to have an impact to standard date fields.
5) This also seems to have impact on effectivity dates which don't have timestamp. Eg, pricelist effectivity end date = 30-Jun-2008. The pricelist becomes ineffective at 7 PM EST because of system time zone being GMT.
Any pointers to address such issues, would be of great help.
Thanks.
-bs

Hi,
below is an answer from Oracle on similar issue regarding timezones:
Oracle E-Business Suite version 11i10 or higher
1 Oracle RDBMS 9i or higher
2 The database must be configured to use the time zone file
'timezlrg.dat' rather than the 'timezone.dat' file
3 The database must be started in the standard corporate time zone
4 Profile 'Server Timezone' (SERVER_TIMEZONE_ID) must be set at the Site
level, and must be set to the same standard corporate time zone as the
database
5 Profile 'Client Timezone' (CLIENT_TIMEZONE_ID) must be set at the user
level
6 Profile 'Enable Timezone Conversions' (ENABLE_TIMEZONE_CONVERSIONS)
must be set to 'Yes' ('Y') at the Site level.
7 Profile 'Concurrent: Multiple Time Zones' (CONC_MULTI_TZ) should be
set to 'No' (N) at the Site level
8 Environment variable FORMS60_APPSLIBS must be set in the Forms tier
(this has always been a requirement for 11i)
9 Forms must be launched through the Personal Home Page or Navigate portlet
Additionally check these notes:
Note 330075.1
Note:188059.1
malin

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I just switched back to BlackBerry from iPhone, and love everything about it so far except one thing: time zone issues on calendar invites.
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Yes, there are issues. See the following from Sun Microsystems
Sun(sm) Alert Notification
    * Sun Alert ID: 102836
    * Synopsis: Olson TZ Data (tzdata2005r or
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    * Category: Availability
    * Product: Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition
    * BugIDs: 6466476, 6530336
    * Avoidance: Upgrade
    * State: Resolved
    * Date Released: 08-Mar-2007
    * Date Closed: 08-Mar-2007
    * Date Modified:
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The introduction of Olson Timezone (TZ) data,
version 2005r or greater, may break backward
compatibility for the Eastern, Hawaiian, and
Mountain time zones, under certain circumstances.
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and 6530336, listed at:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6466476
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6530336
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all platforms:
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    * JDK and JRE 5.0u8 and above
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http://java.sun.com/javase/tzupdater_README.html
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