MST/MDT timezones

[HaggisMan]

Do my eyes deceive me or do I *still* have to manually put the store in/out of daylight savings time? I'm running GOLD build 7345.

[Katie]

Yes because the feature has not been requested, and not all countries and states participate so trying to do any time adjustments automatically may be problematic.

You are welcome to request the feature by clicking the green Feedback button.

[NC Software]

Oh yes it has Long long ago and many times in other forums. Logan is well aware. The reasoning I "believe" was a .NET framework issue but with .NET 4 and later support it "should" be implemented. I think the AC site is the only one that doesn't have this functionality, even lesser PHP sites have it.

[jguengerich]

I put this in my user and admin login page's Page_Init methods:

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            CommerceBuilder.Stores.StoreSettingsManager settings = CommerceBuilder.Common.AbleContext.Current.Store.Settings;
            bool isDaylight = DateTime.Now.IsDaylightSavingTime();
            if (isDaylight && settings.TimeZoneCode != "CDT")
            {
                settings.TimeZoneCode = "CDT";
                settings.TimeZoneOffset = -5.0;
                settings.Save();
            }
            else
            {
                if (!isDaylight && settings.TimeZoneCode != "CST")
                {
                    settings.TimeZoneCode = "CST";
                    settings.TimeZoneOffset = -6.0;
                    settings.Save();
                }
            }

Our site is member only, so this way before anyone does anything, the time will be adjusted if necessary. I'm sure the actual time zone and offset could be extracted from .Net instead of hard-coded. Another way to do it would be to use a timer in Global.asax, like AC does for the Google Feed generation.

[NC Software]

It only affects Admin data "viewing" AFAIK so it could be processed on access to /admin

[jguengerich]

I think you're right, but I wasn't 100% sure, so I did both just in case.