Timezone Settings

Control Center Monitor stores date time information in its database in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC). To display UTC date time in your preferred time zone, Control Center Monitor uses one of its built-in time zone definitions to do conversions. Control Center Monitor comes with many built-in time zone definitions to facilitate these conversions, but you may find the one for your location needs to be updated to account for recent changes made by government to when daylight saving time starts and stops.

TimeZones.xmlis the property file that authorized users may update or add to, to override or add to, Control Center Monitor’s built-in time zone definitions. To access TimeZones.xml click Menu button () > System Settings > Properties.

<timeZones>
  <!-- Insert elements like timeZone below to add to or replace the time zones built into Control Center
  <timeZone>
    <id>time zone id</timeZone>    If this id is unique, Control Center will add it as a new time zone; otherwise the existing one will be updated
    <displayName>time zone display name</displayName>
    <rawOffset>UTC offset in minutes for time zone</rawOffset>  Positive or negative number expected
    <start>MM/DD hh:mm:ss</start>  Month (1-12), date (1-31), hour (0-23), minute (0-59), and second (0-59) DST begins
    <end>MM/DD hh:mm:ss</end>      Month (1-12), date (1-31), hour (0-23), minute (0-59), and second (0-59) DST ends
    <dstOffset># minutes clock moves forward when DST begins</dstOffset>  Default value is 60 
  </timeZone>
                                                                          -->
  <!-- Example of time zone with daylight saving time                     -->
  <timeZone>
    <id>Brazil/EastOld</id>
    <displayName>Brasilia (BRT/BRST/OLD)</displayName>
    <rawOffset>-180</rawOffset>
    <start>10/19 1:00:00</start>
    <end>2/15 23:00:00</end>
    <dstOffset>60</dstOffset>
  </timeZone>
  
  <!-- Example of time zone with no daylight saving time                  -->
  <timeZone>
    <id>Brazil/East</id>
<displayName>Brasilia (BRT/BRST)</displayName>
    <rawOffset>-180</rawOffset>
  </timeZone>
  
  <!-- Example of time zone with no daylight saving time                  -->
  <timeZone>
    <id>America/Sao_Paulo</id>
<displayName>Brasilia</displayName>
    <rawOffset>-180</rawOffset>
  </timeZone>
  
  <!-- Example of time zone with no daylight saving time                  -->
  <timeZone>
    <id>America/Caracas</id>
<displayName>Caracas, La Paz</displayName>
    <rawOffset>-270</rawOffset>
  </timeZone>
  
  <!-- Example of time zone with no daylight saving time                  -->
  <timeZone>
    <id>Asia/Hong_Kong</id>
<displayName>Beijing, Chongqing, Hong Kong</displayName>
    <rawOffset>480</rawOffset>
  </timeZone>

  <timeZone>
    <id>Asia/Taipei</id>
<displayName>Taipei</displayName>
    <rawOffset>480</rawOffset>
  </timeZone>

  <timeZone>
    <id>Asia/Shanghai</id>
<displayName>Shanghai</displayName>
    <rawOffset>480</rawOffset>
  </timeZone>
</timeZones>

Comments in this file explain how existing time zone definitions may be updated, or new ones added, that may subsequently be referenced when running configCC.sh or configCC.bat. When TimeZones.xml is updated, all EPs must be restarted for the changes to take effect.