Using local time zone

By default, Distribution SX.e records dates and times of transactions, such as the various types of order documents, transactions, credit holds and releases, GL postings, shipments, and receipts that are updated by report processes, are based on the server’s time.

If you have multiple locations across the continent that share a common computer system, all transactions in each time zone are recorded using the time of the primary server. If your company requires that processing of reports that update data and transactions be recorded based on the local date and time, you can change a system option to use the user's time zone to record transaction dates and times in the user's local time.

Select the Use Client Time Zone to Load Date/Time on System Records option in SA Administrator Options-System-General. Then, select No Static Time Zone in the Use Static Time Zone in Place of Client Time Zone For Report and System Generated Date/Time Fields field. When this feature is activated, the Time Zone is obtained from the user's Windows' session Date/Time settings. If Daylight Savings Time (DST) applies in the user's locality, the DST offset is recorded on the user's SA Operator Setup record so that the correct date and time is used when recording transactions.

Note: Transactions created before you select the new option are not changed to reflect the client date and time zone. Also note that this option does not impact all system updating, only those transactions that are updated when reports that update data are run.

Both the client and server date and time are displayed in report headers. For reports that include open GL journal warnings, the server and client date and time is displayed in the warning message.