[FX.php List] Fun with time zones

[Steve Winter]

Hi Jonathan,

Presumably these servers are all in the US...? so could you just pick a timezone, synchronise all of the servers to that timezone, and then tell everyone in the emails/records etc that it's 11:00 PDT (or whichever timezone you selected...?)

Random thought while on a train at the end of a really long day...!

Cheers
Steve


On 10 Dec 2009, at 16:53, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:

> This is s new one for me. Wondering how others handle servers in multiple time zones....
> 
> I just launched a project that involved three different servers, each in a different time zone. Problems started cropping up when session handling kicked in. Users that were supposed to get an hour before session expiring were getting kicked off before then.
> 
> The decision to use multiple server locations was last minute in an effort to  improve hardware to handle anticipated load. Once the initial launch traffic slows down, the solution will probably be consolidated back to a single location.
> 
> So the question is, how to best handle time zones in this situation?
> 
> In this case, the fmp record creation said 12:00 when the confirmation email said 11:00 and so on.
> 
> I know that the answer is that it is just date math, but there are some baseline practices to follow, it appears.
> 
> Any words of wisdom?
> 
> Jonathan Schwartz
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