Specifies the users' default preferred time zone before they select their own in the My Account dialog. One of the time zones that are specified in the TimeZones.xml file. If you do not set this option, then the value is the User-Preferred Time Zone.

Specifies the time zone to use for displaying data. You must specify this value to enable the conversion to EST.Īn offset that indicates the number of hours away from GMT time. If you do not set this option, then no time zone conversion occurs because the value is 'unknown'.įor example, suppose you want to convert to Eastern Standard Time (EST), which is Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) - 5. To enable the time zone to be converted so that users see the appropriate zone, you must set the value of this element or variable. The time zone offset of the original data. Log files contain time stamps for various activities. The time on which objects in the Oracle BI Presentation Catalog are created, modified, and accessed. The generated time of alerts or analyses. General time stamps that indicate when events happenĮnd users can specify the time zone for many general stamps including the following ones: If the specified display time zone supports daylight saving time, then the timestamp values that are displayed are automatically adjusted for daylight saving time. This specification overrides those made by you as the administrator and by end users if they have previously used the column in their queries and have set the time zone. Users who create analyses can specify the time zone that is displayed in their analyses and dashboard prompts. If you make no time zone settings, then users see the time stamp data in the time zone of the original data as set by the administrator.Ĭontent that is displayed in Oracle Business Intelligence The administrator specifies the time zone for the data that is retrieved from the database. If you make no time zone settings and if a user does not specify a preferred time zone using the My Account dialog, then that user sees time displayed according to the local time zone for Presentation Services.įor information about how users specify their preferred time zones, see User's Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition.

You can specify that users on the east coast of the United States see time stamps that are displayed in Eastern Standard Time. For example, suppose the server is located in the Pacific time zone in the United States. If you have users in time zones that are different from the zone for Presentation Services, then you as the administrator can specify the time stamps that those users see in Oracle Business Intelligence.

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