Using time zone shifting

Time zone shifting allows you to display collected data into an alternate time zone other than that of the VistaMart, which is referred to as the preferred time zone. This feature translates all time stamps into your preferred time zone but is only available for display rates below Daily (Hourly, 30 minutes, 15 minutes, 10 minutes, and 5 minutes.) Time bars default to your preferred time zone for display rates below Daily when configured and automatically time shift.

Note: Time zone selection and shifting are only available if your Administrator has set up and/or given you access to an alternate (preferred) time zone. Otherwise, the time zone drop-down list is not present in the Time Navigator.

Time zone shifting with the temporal bar

In the temporal bar, the time zone indicator appears following the date.

Time zone shifting is not possible for Daily display rate and higher.

Select a time zone

1

Go the temporal bar.

2

Select the desired time zone using the drop-down to the left of the forward and back buttons.

3

Click the Apply icon . Displets, such as Graphs on Demand and Reports (with a display rate below Daily), shift to the selected time zone and indicate it in the title.

If data coming from different VistaMarts is displayed on the same page and those VistaMarts use different global time zones, the temporal bar of the Time Navigator displays GMT±X for the time zone.

Selecting a time zone with the Time Navigator and clicking Go forces all displets with below-Daily display rates within the page to that time zone. If a displet is unable to apply the time settings (time zone/display rate/date & time) requested by the Time Navigator, time indications for that displet may differ from those of the Time Navigator.

Time shifting and the Object Navigator

Time zones appear differently depending on if you use the instances list, exceptions list, or instant reports.

In the list of instances, the CDate, UDate, and TTL columns display the VistaMart time zone (which are stored in the Oracle time zone).

In the list of exceptions, the StartDate and EndDate columns use your selected time zone. When drilling down from an exception to a Report or Graph on demand, the selected time zone is used.

Instant reports ignore time shifting and only display reports using the global time zone.

Time shifting and reports

In reports that display data mixing both Daily-or-above and below-Daily display rates, only the global VistaMarts time zones are available.

When the selected display rate for the temporal bar is below-Daily, while columns in a report use Daily-or-above display rates, only the global VistaMarts time zones are available.

Time shifting does have a side effect when working with time zones that have non hour-aligned offsets. For example, if you set your preferred time zone to ‘GMT+04:30 - Kabul’ and use it on data collected at UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), the hourly data displayed is aligned on the half hour (1:30, 2:30, etc.)