We have setup a Legal Entity A with GMT+5:00 Time Zone, another Legal Entity B with GMT +8:00 Time Zone.
however it appears that the date formats and other date fields use the System Date Company A, which is pulled from the AOS servers itself ( correct ? ).
What are some best practices for a multi-aos deployment with legal entities in various countries?
e.g.
On New purchase order form, there is delivery and accounting dates. we are working on Legal entity B, it shows the wrong date because the AOS is located in Legal Entity A’s timezone ( windows server regional settings ).
we want that system should get receipt dat, invoice date of Legal Entity B instead of A.
Time zone is normally taken from the user, not the company. It seems that your preferred time zone (File > Tools > Options > Preferred time zone) is GMT+5. You can change it there to whatever you like.
Where the AOS is located it irrelevant, because data are saved to database in UNC. Time zones are applied only when displaying data to users.
What field are you referring to? Is it a normal date field (maintained by AX application) or the CreatedDateTime field (maintained by AX kernel). What UTC value do you see in database?
Kindly note that AX stores data and time values in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). Whereas user(s) preferred time zone is used only when displaying dates and times. (See Technet Web link provided below).
Let me know, if this helps you!
To set user time zone,
Open Microsoft Dynamics AX client, click File > Tools > Options….
Click General. In the Preferred time zone field, select a time zone.