Help needed. Timezone difference between web service and server on BC on-prem

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Hi Experts,

I really need help on timezone differences on webservices and locale.

I’m currently using BC on premise

First,

the server timezone is UTC

user A timezone is GMT+9

user B timezone is GMT+7

When users call web services via SOAP it will show datetime value in the table on their respective timezone.

However i created a function that automatically allow report creation to pdf and send them via server.

The datetime value on the report using the server timezone.

Is there a way to get the user local timezone and send them to the report ?

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Hi Lie,

There is always a way, even if its not direct! [emoticon:c4563cd7d5574777a71c318021cbbcc8]

As you know, everything is done on on the server and with SOAP, that means EVERYTHING. You have no way to automatically do this, unless of course you would create a server instance per timezone. But if it is just to get a time on the report to printed correctly, then that may be a bit too much. You can call it plan B.

If we just talk about one report, then I would do it via programming.

One way could be adding a “timezone” property to your soap call and use this value to change the datetime on the report. Or have a user timezone setup that the report would lookup, based on who the user calling the soap is.

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