Specifying time zones

Dates and times are time zone aware. Time zones are relative to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

For example, if an order is created on the system on 06/15/2003 at 16:00:00 in New York, (USA/New York time zone) a user in Chicago who examines that order observes that order creation date-time as 06/15/2003 at 15:00:00, (USA/Chicago time zone).

For a time published from Boston that is -5:00 hours from UTC, the string literal "-5:00" is appended to the current date-time attribute published from APIs. The input "2003-04-23T14:15:32-05:00" gives the date, time, and time zone reference for a transaction.

The yfs.install.localecode parameter in the yfs.properties file determines the time zone. For example, yfs.install.localecode=en_US_EST

To configure the time zone, set the yfs.install.localecode property to en_US_EST in the INSTALL_DIR/properties/customer_overrides.properties file.