There are two types of time settings that affect the way processes are date/time stamped in the ACTIVE Content Manager. The first setting is system time, the second is site time.
System time is the same as the date/time on the ACM server machine. All of the ACM's system tools use the system time.
Site time is a setting that is configured for each site within the ACM. This allows you to configure an appropriate time setting for each site, depending on where the site is based geographically. By default, site time is the same as the system time unless you change it. All pages belonging to a particular site will display the date and time values according to the site time. This includes the settings for page publishing controls, pagetype emails, content (Article Date for example). Thus, if a syndicated event page is opened from the syndication manager, it will show the system time. If the same event is opened by calendar page, date/time values will be converted to site time. When a page is saved and/or published, the date/time values are converted back to system time before saving them to database.
All pages belonging to a site display the date and time values based on the site time. This includes all date and time settings for publishing the page, for date/time fields on the page, and for emails associated with the page type. For syndicated content, if a syndicated page is opened from the Syndication Manager, it will show the system time. If the same page is opened from another site page, the date and time values will be converted to site time.
Also, when pages are saved or published, the page's date and time values will be converted back to system time before saving them to the database.
Calendar and events (both Syndicated and non-syndicated)
Quick Links/RSS feeds - when events are retrieved
Email Updates page type – scheduling of email updates includes time.
Club Listing - when adding new events
Survey - submission times
Forum pagetype
Job Center & Syndicated Job posting
Search pages – the last modified time of pages returned in search results
When an event is created in time zone A, but gets published in time zone B, the edit mode in timezone B will display the event as it was created - in time zone A and there will be a visible indication that the event time is a time zone A time. In other words, if an event is created in a PST time zone site, then it’s a PST event and the event time displayed in edit mode will always be in PST. However, in view mode, the event will still appear in the site time zone (B in this case).
Open Sites Manager > Edit the desired site > Time Zone tab, and select a new time zone and Save.