FYI - WF-BATCH and Time Zones

[Kjetil Kilhavn]

Yes, I believe they must be the same since our system is here in Norway
were we have central European time. 
... Checking ... 
The system time zone that is CET. On my user both system and personal
time zone is CET, but WF-BATCH does not have a personal time zone. I
glanced too quickly at it yesterday, I saw "CET" there and didn't check
the field label. Too much in a hurry again...


In any case I have to agree that it wouldn't be the behaviour I
expected. At least it is consistent and makes sense considering that the
deadline calculations then obviously must be made in WF-BATCH user
context. I was afraid you had found out things got really screwed up.

Have a good weekend (soon).
-- 
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: 24. august 2005 17:49
To: SAP Workflow Users' Group
Subject: Re: FYI - WF-BATCH and Time Zones

In this particular case the System time was GMT and WF-BATCH had Eastern
US time. When the requested start deadline was created the deadline was
created 5 hours further into the future than requested (I think I've got
this the right way round - off site now)

In your case Kjetil, is the system and WF-BATCH in the same time-zone?

This may be an OSS issue - didn't find it though - but removing the time
zone against WF-BATCH gave the expected deadlines.

Have fun,
Mark

On 8/24/05, Alon Raskin <araskin at 3i-consulting.com> wrote:
> 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?
>  
> Alon Raskin
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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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