Hi All,

Do any of you have any experience using ZULU time to populate fields,
specifically the diary field? We don't want to do a global change on
the workstations for all forms, just one form in particular.

Thanks for any ideas!
Mary Dollus
Scott AFB, IL
Maxim Group

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Mary:

Change the time on the Workstations. We had to do this due to a 'higher
level' requirement.

James Mckenzie

Dollus Mary Contr 868CS/SCYO wrote:
>
> **
>
> Hi All,
>
> Do any of you have any experience using ZULU time to populate fields,
> specifically the diary field? We don't want to do a global change on
> the workstations for all forms, just one form in particular.
>
> Thanks for any ideas!
> Mary Dollus
> Scott AFB, IL
> Maxim Group
>
> _____________________________
>
>

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Hi James,

They don't want to use this option, it may be the only way, but they
want me to try to figure out if it's possible to have GMT time on one
form only, not have it apply to EVERY form.

Thanks anyway,,,,
Mary

-----Original Message-----
From: James Mckenzie [mailto:os2support@THERIVER.COM]
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 8:23 PM
To: ARSLIST@LISTSERV.VISTAIT.COM
Subject: Re: Zulu time


**

Mary:

Change the time on the Workstations. We had to do this due to a 'higher
level' requirement.

James Mckenzie

Dollus Mary Contr 868CS/SCYO wrote:
>
> **
>
> Hi All,
>
> Do any of you have any experience using ZULU time to populate fields,
> specifically the diary field? We don't want to do a global change on
> the workstations for all forms, just one form in particular.
>
> Thanks for any ideas!
> Mary Dollus
> Scott AFB, IL
> Maxim Group
>
>
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If all you need to do is post the string value of the current date/time
into a diary field, and your server is some flavor of UNIX, then you can
use the -u option to the date command, which will give you "UTC" (a.k.a,
GMT or Zulu) time.

Here's what it looks like on SunOS 4.x and Solaris:

$ date -u
Tue Aug 7 18:06:25 GMT 2001

To get the ISO-compliant method of displaying date and time you can do
this:

$ date "+%Y-%M-%d %H:%m:%S"
2001-00-07 14:08:58

The old military way of showing date and time might look something like
this:

$ date "+%d %b %y %H%M%S"
07 Aug 01 141015

You could easily do a $PROCESS$ from a filter or active link and paste the
return value into the current diary entry. Concatenate the value with
some static string value like: "The current Zulu date/time is -- ".

--Tim Widowfield,
taw@dnaco.net


On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Dollus Mary Contr 868CS/SCYO wrote:

> **
>
> Hi All,
>
> Do any of you have any experience using ZULU time to populate fields,
> specifically the diary field? We don't want to do a global change on
> the workstations for all forms, just one form in particular.
>
> Thanks for any ideas!
> Mary Dollus
> Scott AFB, IL
> Maxim Group
>
> _____________________________
>
>
>

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Mary,

Since Remedy stores the time in the standard Unix format, then displays it on the user's
client using the user's preferences, you can't really do anything to ensure a Date/Time field
shows in the GMT time zone.

If you *really* have to do this, you will probably have to make it a character field. And
have the equivalent Date/Time field hidden on the form. In fact, you could make your new
field display-only.

You would then have to convert to GMT characters. There are lots of ways, I would probably
write a script and do a Set Fields RunProcess action.

Similar to what you might want to do for the Julian date issue, too.

Dollus Mary Contr 868CS/SCYO wrote:

> They don't want to use this option, it may be the only way, but they
> want me to try to figure out if it's possible to have GMT time on one
> form only, not have it apply to EVERY form.

--
John DeCarlo, The MITRE Corporation, My Views Are My Own
email: jdecarlo@mitre.org
voice: 703-883-7116
fax: 703-883-3383

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Mary:

Ok, now that I know what you want to do, yes this is possible. You can
either use an 'addition' of a fixed time to the system time to get Zulu
(GMT) or you can use an API program to do the same thing.

Basically, you hide the non-Zulu time fields and create new Zulu time
fields which are the non-Zulu fields plus or minus an adjustment amount
which is the time in seconds difference. Put this in the Zulu time
field.

James Mckenzie


Dollus Mary Contr 868CS/SCYO wrote:
>
> **
>
> Hi James,
>
> They don't want to use this option, it may be the only way, but they
> want me to try to figure out if it's possible to have GMT time on one
> form only, not have it apply to EVERY form.
>
> Thanks anyway,,,,
> Mary
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Mckenzie [mailto:os2support@THERIVER.COM]
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 8:23 PM
> To: ARSLIST@LISTSERV.VISTAIT.COM
> Subject: Re: Zulu time
>
> **
>
> Mary:
>
> Change the time on the Workstations. We had to do this due to a 'higher
> level' requirement.
>
> James Mckenzie
>
> Dollus Mary Contr 868CS/SCYO wrote:
> >
> > **
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Do any of you have any experience using ZULU time to populate fields,
> > specifically the diary field? We don't want to do a global change on
> > the workstations for all forms, just one form in particular.
> >
> > Thanks for any ideas!
> > Mary Dollus
> > Scott AFB, IL
> > Maxim Group
> >
> >
> ____________
> _________________
> >
>
> > You may also control your subscription options, including UNSUBSCRIBE,
> at www.ARSLIST.org
>
> ____________
> _________________
>
>
> You may also control your subscription options, including UNSUBSCRIBE,
> at www.ARSLIST.org
>
> _____________________________
>
>

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James,

The problem I see with using a Date/Time field is that different clients may be in different
time zones.

If Mary's users will all be on the same time zone, that will work. But I would guess some may
be on Zulu and some on local time, and there may be users in different local time zones.

James Mckenzie wrote:

> Ok, now that I know what you want to do, yes this is possible. You can
> either use an 'addition' of a fixed time to the system time to get Zulu
> (GMT) or you can use an API program to do the same thing.
>
> Basically, you hide the non-Zulu time fields and create new Zulu time
> fields which are the non-Zulu fields plus or minus an adjustment amount
> which is the time in seconds difference. Put this in the Zulu time
> field.

--
John DeCarlo, The MITRE Corporation, My Views Are My Own
email: jdecarlo@mitre.org
voice: 703-883-7116
fax: 703-883-3383

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John:

What I said was to set the User's machine to Zulu (GMT) time. This will
show all times as in that time zone.

James Mckenzie

John DeCarlo wrote:
>
> **
>
> James,
>
> The problem I see with using a Date/Time field is that different clients may be in different
> time zones.
>
> If Mary's users will all be on the same time zone, that will work. But I would guess some may
> be on Zulu and some on local time, and there may be users in different local time zones.
>
> James Mckenzie wrote:
>
> > Ok, now that I know what you want to do, yes this is possible. You can
> > either use an 'addition' of a fixed time to the system time to get Zulu
> > (GMT) or you can use an API program to do the same thing.
> >
> > Basically, you hide the non-Zulu time fields and create new Zulu time
> > fields which are the non-Zulu fields plus or minus an adjustment amount
> > which is the time in seconds difference. Put this in the Zulu time
> > field.
>
> --
> John DeCarlo, The MITRE Corporation, My Views Are My Own
> email: jdecarlo@mitre.org
> voice: 703-883-7116
> fax: 703-883-3383
>
> _____________________________
>
>

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