Time zones

Besides being sensitive to local time zone considerations, Sterling Selling and Fulfillment Foundation is configured to recognize worldwide time zones. For example, if an order is placed in Germany for fulfillment in the United States, but, the order details are not filled on time, the software considers differences in the two time zones in order to raise an exception at the appropriate hour in the United States.

Following are the different ways in which the IBM® Sterling Application Platform handles time zones:

Note: When you define a locale with a time zone (for example, en_US_EST) and when the user is logged in for that locale, the system uses the files ending in <language>_<country> code only. For instance, if the application had time zones fr_CA_EST and fr_CA_GMT set up for a locale, the system uses the same files (for example, ycpapibundle_fr_CA.properties, en_US_ycplocalizedstrings_fr_CA.properties, earth_fr_CA.css) irrespective of the time zone of the logged in user.