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02 Things you need to know
Administrator Client, Client, Designer, Server
Time zone and DST settings

Client settings

Notes time zone and Daylight Saving Time (DST) settings are now synchronized with those of the operating system. When you start Notes, the operating system (OS) time zone and DST settings are updated to match those of your current Notes location. In previous releases, Notes updated the OS clock, not the time zone/DST settings, causing the OS time and time zone to be different. In R5, if you change to a location with a different time zone, or change time zones in your current location, the operating system time zone and DST settings are updated to match. Because of this, it is important that time zone, DST on/off and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) are set correctly on your operating system. For example, if your operating system is set to "DST off", and you have manually changed your clock to account for DST, running Notes causes DST to be turned on in the OS, and the OS clock will be off by one hour.

Windows 95/98/NT platforms

When you edit your Location document, the list of time zones to pick from now match those of your operating system. The DST start and end dates also match those of the operating system. If you change to a location with a different time zone, that time zone's DST start and end dates take affect. In addition, if you change the OS time zone or DST setting in the control panel while Notes is running, the current location's time zone and DST are updated to match the OS.

When upgrading to R5, if any of your Location documents contain a time zone that doesn't match that of the operating system, you may be prompted to choose a specific time zone.

Server

On Windows 95/98/NT platforms, Notes time zone and DST settings are retrieved from the operating system. Server settings should match client settings, and servers that replicate should all be set to the same settings. If server settings do not match (for example, one server with DST on and one server with DST off), you could get some strange behavior with agents that run at a specific time. A symptom of this would be the following message:

08/10/98 03:59:13 PM  AMgr: Time span since last reset of hourly statistics is negative

On non-Windows platforms, the list of time zones to pick from is the same list as in previous Notes releases.

On Windows platforms, if the OS time zone/DST setting is changed via the control panel while the server is running, it will have no effect until the server is restarted.