Administering Global Time Zone Support
The time zone records that are shipped as seed data with Siebel Business Applications include the world time zones, each with a start date of 1 January 1900. The world time zones that are available at the time of a Siebel release are included in the release.
Time zone detail records are included with time zone records. Time zone detail records are important for tracking minor differences in time zones. For example, there is a time zone detail record for each of the continental United States time zones with a start date of 1 January 2007, which reflects the changes in start and end dates for daylight savings time for 2007. If the daylight savings time start and end dates change again, then add a new record for the year of the change. For more information about global time zone support, see Siebel Global Deployment Guide.
Use the Time Zone administration view to:
Edit the text descriptions of time zones and their abbreviations.
Manage the active status of time zones to control which time zones are available to users for use in the Siebel Business Applications.
Manage multilingual translations to control how time zone information appears to users in multiple languages.
Set the start and end dates for daylight savings time for different years and zones.
Tasks for administering time zones include: