NGClient Timezone

[steve1376656734]

I need to display date/time values in an NG client as GMT(BST) no matter what timezone my user is located in but seem totally unable to do this.

My scenario is this:

DB: PostgreSQL Field: Timestamp without timezone
Server: TImezone is set to ‘Europe/London’

I am in the UK and use the NG client to enter a date/time into the system 20 Mar 2019 13:30:00. It is stored in the DB as the GMT date time I entered. I display it on the screen and it shows the correct date/time (20 Mar 2019 13:30:00). I now “fly” to Australia (Perth) and bring up the same record but the date/time displayed is the one I entered but converted to the browsers local timezone so I see 20 Mar 2019 21:30:00 displayed on the screen

I tried using i18n.setTimeZone(‘Europe/London’) when the user logs in but I get an error in the log that says:

WARN com.servoy.j2db.util.Debug - Setting TimeZone on NG client is not allowed
	at eval:0

This is despite the documentation saying that this function is supported in the NG client:
[attachment=0]timezone.png[/attachment]
Can anyone suggest how I can achieve what I want please?

Thanks
Steve

[Joas]

I think you need to change the property servoy.use.client.timezone on the admin page, see Docs

[steve1376656734]

Hi Joas,

Thanks for the reply. The problem with changing the flag on the admin page is that if you are also supporting web clients on the same server then they then get a problem with timezones. I have logged a bug report with Servoy and it looks like there is a fix for the issue coming in 2019.06 that basically gets the NG client to ignore the admin flag and rely solely on the flag within the formatting option that is called “Use as LocalDateTime (NG Client Only)”

[attachment=0]NG Time Format.png[/attachment]