FYI - WF-BATCH and Time Zones

[Alon Raskin]

I dont have experience with what Mark is saying (I am sure he will elaborate) but it makes sense. WF-BATCH probably uses some system variables (like sy-datum or sy-datlo) to check for deadlines. If it is in a different time zone then it may evaluate deadlines differently then the rest of the users.
 
Mark. Am I close?
 
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From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu on behalf of Kjetil Kilhavn
Sent: Wed 8/24/2005 05:56
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: RE: FYI - WF-BATCH and Time Zones



Hello (again, after my holidays are sadly over).

We are on 4.6C still, but could you elaborate a little on what "nasty
things" you have observed? I checked our system, and WF-BATCH does have
CET as time zone.

We don't use a lot of deadlines, and I believe they are all modelled (no
simple notifications), but it has never occurred to me that deadlines
would be influenced by a time zone setting. I have assumed that
deadlines were calculated from simple time calculations - and most
likely using UTC since I think that is what is stored in the database.
--
Kjetil Kilhavn, Statoil KTJ IT BKS


-----Original Message-----
From: sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:sap-wug-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Mark Pyc
Sent: 18. august 2005 20:36
To: WUG
Subject: FYI - WF-BATCH and Time Zones

G'day Wuggers,

I thought I'd share this little gem with you - don't put a time zone
setting against the WF-BATCH user master.

I'm not sure who did it or why but it does nasty things to deadline
entries. A time zone setting against a dialog user doesn't seem to do
anything terrible, but one against WF-BATCH does.

At least it does for Requested Start related steps generated after a
background step in a 620 system.

Just sharing the love.

Have fun,
Mark

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