Calendar Date/Time Issue

[corvidae]

Hi Everyone,

I'm new to Alfresco, so please bare with me.

We're having a problem with the calendar showing the incorrect time/date for events. The two pictures below illustrate what I'm referencing to; the date was set for Friday - All Day - Out of the office, but yet Alfresco has it listed as Thursday on the calendar. I think it's related to the time zone setting (server being in UTC, and the site being in EST) but i'm not sure. It looks relatively simple but I can't figure out what's wrong. I've seen this problem related to Jira, but we don't have that running as of now so I don't know what else it could be. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

**I'm not sure if this is the right sub-forum to post this in, but if not then please let me know so I can remedy that mistake**

[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11481028/Work%20related/Alfresco%20Error1.jpg[/img]

[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11481028/Work%20related/Alfresco%20Error%202.jpg[/img]

[corvidae]

….anyone?

[sasquatch58]

I don't have a specific answer but have seen similar things in other database driven applications.
The data should be stored in the database against UTC. The user locale defines at what time the data is displayed. Issues can arise when different users are located in different locales and are accessing the same information.
Imagine if you were creating a meeting invitation in Fairfax (currently UTC-4) for 0900h and invite a user from a Paris office (currently UTC+2). They will see this as 1500h. Now if you put in an out of office entry for 28 July, think about  when this starts and stops for someone viewing this from another timezone and more importantly, how does the software handle and present this?
For meetings, this is easy - just accept the original entry. For OoO it's tricky and the software may simplify things, perhaps based on stored start of day for the locale and that can shift either side of midnight foranother locale.
Perhaps the Alfresco devs could enlighten.
Cheers, Sasquatch