Hi all,

up to now im running the mcms on a windows 2003 server with timezone UTC + 1
.
All my authors come from this time zone, so no problems here.

In the future we will have authors all over europe/world in different time
zones. I'm a little bit confused about different time zones and publishing
documents.
I'm not sure how to set up this scenario. Should i host the server in UTC
and disable daylight saving adjustment?

If postings are published immediately all is fine. But some postings like
press releases have to be published in the future.
Lets say the server runs in UTC and the author has a local time UTC + 2.
If the author wants a posting to be published at 14:30 in his local time.
Which date has the author to fill in, 14:30 or 16:30 because he is in UTC + 
2
zone?

Regards

Göran

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Hi Göran,

my experience is that authors will always see the start and end publishing
time in their timezone in the browser.

Cheers,
Stefan

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"Göran Tänzer" <GranTnzer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> up to now im running the mcms on a windows 2003 server with timezone UTC +
> 1.
> All my authors come from this time zone, so no problems here.
>
> In the future we will have authors all over europe/world in different time
> zones. I'm a little bit confused about different time zones and publishing
> documents.
> I'm not sure how to set up this scenario. Should i host the server in UTC
> and disable daylight saving adjustment?
>
> If postings are published immediately all is fine. But some postings like
> press releases have to be published in the future.
> Lets say the server runs in UTC and the author has a local time UTC + 2.
> If the author wants a posting to be published at 14:30 in his local time.
> Which date has the author to fill in, 14:30 or 16:30 because he is in UTC
> + 2
> zone?
>
> Regards
>
> Göran

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Hi Göran,

hmm.... I thought this would convert the time.
Maybe I'm wrong. then you would have to implement your own Page property
dialog.

Cheers,
Stefan

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"Göran Tänzer" <GranTnzer@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Stefan,
>
> i set up my dev Server in UTC. I'm running a client machine in UTC + 1.
> Now i want to publish a posting in the future. When i set the start
> publishing time to 10:00 o'clock on my client in the page properties
> dialog
> the date is stored on the mcms at 10:00 o'clock but in UTC. There is no
> time
> conversion from client timezone to server timezone. -> 10:00 on the server
> =
> 11:00  on the client.
> When the author goes to the web site at 10:01 o'clock the posting is still
> in the state "approved" and not published because on the server its 09:01.
> My authors don't want to adjust the time zones on their own.
> Are there mcms settings to accomplish this?
> Or must i add some own code?
>
> Regards,
>
> Göran
> "Stefan [MSFT]" wrote:
> 

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