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> So:
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>     JDBC Web servers(US/East)  <---> 90 database (5 different timezones)
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> Therefore everything to the end user is passed through the Web servers?
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> Is there a reason why the databases have different timezones?
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> Seems to me less complicated to have all the databases share the UTC
> timezone. Then you only have one offset, US/East <--> UTC.
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>
We originally did it for simplicity sake, the database is set for our
customer's timezone.  So when we grabbed a date from the db, it would in
the correct timezone for the viewer, without the web code having to know
the timezone.

George Woodring
iGLASS Networks
www.iglass.net

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