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Choose Meeting Time Zone & Display Current Time Zone

  • December 17, 2019
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My use case consists of scheduling meetings/hearings in one time zone and entering it on the form but also displaying my eastern time zone time next to the scheduled.  For example, a meeting is entered on the form for 1 pm CST in a date field but next to that display 2 pm EST so that our internal staff are aware of both times. I think my dilemma is that my application is set to EST, so I'm not sure if that means our staff would have to enter our current time zone then expect to see the other time zone displayed...I'm not sure the best approach or how to accomplish this.

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Danaya Bryant
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This might be able to be done, but you would need to have a table of users where the userid is the Key field and another field in the table for the offset from Eastern which is the time zone for the app.

Then set up a relationship between that table and the data entry table(s) based on the reference field on the right side of the relationship being [Current User] which would be a formula user field with a formula of 

User()

Now every record knows the local user's offset, say 2 hours for a staff member in Mountain Time Zone.

Then you would have to decide how the data is being entered.  It most straight forward to enter it in Eastern, but if you want to enter it in local time, then you can have a field  for entry call time in local time zone,  and have a formula calculate what that is in eastern, and then have a form rule maintain the field called Eastern Time.

So user enters into a field called [Local Time], and the form rule populates the data entry field called [Eastern Time] 


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  • JasonJohnson2
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  • December 18, 2019
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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