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JasonJohnson2
6 years agoQrew Cadet
Mark is on the right path. Do any of the workers work in an area that does not observe daylight savings time? In general Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and Saskatchewan(that one is a headache) do not observe DST.
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Jason Johnson
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Jason Johnson
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- dbryant48916 years agoQrew TraineeJason, I wondered about that part as well because we do have clients in Arizona who don't which is why I was thinking along the lines of us entering the meeting time in as the actual time of the client's time zone and it displays to us in a separate viewing field of EST/EDT since this is where we all are internally.
I might need further assistance in understanding what the steps are here. So I have an existing table named Users and my key field is [User ID]. The meetings are being entered into a table named "Meetings & Hearings" within the field name [Meeting/Hearing Date & Time]. I anticipate a new field being to the right of that field as a view-only field that will convert any time entered in the [Meeting/Hearing Date & Time] field to an EST/EDT.
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Danaya Bryant
------------------------------- MarkShnier__You6 years ago
Qrew Legend
Hi Dayana,
It's Mark
You would have a formula which calculates the Eastern Time based on the field for the local time plus the offset. Then a form rule to change the Eastern to to the formula time, when the local time is not blank.
If you need to deal with Daylight saving time, then the offset table will need to carry the date when the clock changes to be able to figure that into the calculation of Eastern Time.
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------------------------------ - JasonJohnson26 years agoQrew CadetDo you keep a client table?
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Jason Johnson
------------------------------- dbryant48916 years agoQrew TraineeJason, I do, I have a client table that includes their full address.
Mark, I usually can follow the guidance with responses to others but for some reason I'm struggling a bit here with my own first question. :) I think I"m not making the connection visually.
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Danaya Bryant
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