[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Forum Post: Re: Inconsistency Assigning...

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Any updates on this Robin? The confluence of issues surrounding datetimes and timezones leads me to think it is very unusual for OE/ABL applications to service users in multiple timezones. This is one of two issues that has bitten us recently. This one is a very serious issue, in my opinion, since the ABL's API seems to arbitrarily oscillate back and forth, generating unpredictable datetime results. In one context the API might use the host system's timezone (the equivalent of SESSION:TIMEZONE = ?) and in another context might actually respect the timezone specified in the code (SESSION:TIMEZONE = XYZ). It has been two months and we are still doing quite a bit of head-scratching and arm-flailing over here...

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