Time Zone Offset

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Time Zone Offset

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I am looking for some guidance into handling time zones.

I have users on our mobile applications that are saving data with external Forms in various time zones. Currently it is saving into our server database exactly as they enter the dates, instead of converting it, if in a different time zone.

For reference, the users here are not Decisions users, and are using a login to access our Forms. We do have an offset stored for each user in the format of -4.00" or "+6.00".

Do you have a recommendation when dealing with this particular scenario

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There are steps in Data > Dates that will allow this. The Add/Subtract steps could be used to apply the offset, or ask the user on your Form to enter their time zone and then use the Convert Date From Timezone step.

Storing something like +4.00" doesnt refer to a single timezone (Eastern Time is +5 for half the year