Hi Robert, Welcome aboard! I'll try to help where I can, but this is an area of the system that I don't tend to interact often (maybe once or twice a year to add new hard due dates for our schools).
Some technical background... hard due dates are stored in the database as timestamp with time zone format. So for example, in ours, I can see past ceiling_date like "2014-06-20 00:00:00-04" from entries in my config.hard_due_date table. I'd be curious to see what the actual stored time and timezone entry was for the hard due date in your situation. Perhaps it stored an odd timezone as a result of the timezone on your database server or something to do with clock/time settings on the client. >From the staff client point of view, I can see that the entry seen from Admin -> Server Admin -> Hard Due Date Changes shows me the current ceiling date entry as "6/20/14 12:00 AM", but when editing it, I only get the date portion, not the full timestamp. That might be a potential bug in the staff client interface between how the dojo elements render the selector and it should also provide a way to alter / set the timestamp. If you have direct database access, I would check what the actual timestamp is for your hard due date entry and if it's somehow been set to 18:59:59 for your timezone, then that's something you can adjust. Alternatively, if the timestamp is still 00:00:00, then it might be a matter of finding out what timezone your database / server / clients are operating on and seeing which one is off and needing adjustment. -- Ben On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Robert Meeks < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > As you’ve likely seen Don Butterworth post recently, we’ve just gone live > with Evergreen 2.5 and have been slowly but surely working our way towards > 100% functionality. I’ve encountered something perplexing though that I > can’t seem to find addressed in documentation. For many of our circulation > policies we’re using a hard due date of 1/15/15. I notice that when > creating hard due date policies there’s nowhere to specify the time of day, > just the date. I’ve assumed that maybe that time was set arbitrarily > somewhere in the system, or else based on a particular closing time set > somewhere in the org unit settings…but I can’t seem to nail it down. Right > now the hard due date, when checking items out, is coming up as 1/15/15 at > 6:59:59pm. Anyone have any pointers as to where I can adjust that time? > > Thanks so much for all your help over the past couple of years. I know I > speak for Don when I say we could not have gotten anywhere close to where > we are today without all of your help. > > *Robert Meeks* > *Acquisitions Specialist - BL Fisher Library* > Asbury Theological Seminary > 204 N. Lexington Ave. > Wilmore, KY 40390 > p: 859.858.2397 > > > > > -- Benjamin Shum Evergreen Systems Manager Bibliomation, Inc. 24 Wooster Ave. Waterbury, CT 06708 203-577-4070, ext. 113
