Issue
Is it necessary to create a separate network for a site even if it is the only site outside of the eastern time zone?
Environment
- Continuum
- UTC
- Time Zone
- Continuum Networks
Cause
Site is in a different time zone than the rest of the sites on the being brought into the Continuum system.
Resolution
While schedules can be mitigated locally and alarms be stamped with the time of occurrence with respect to the local time zone, neither of these are optimal ways to run Continuum. Extended logs are not manageable when points are being logged in a controller in time zone A and then downloaded by a Cyberstation in time zone B.
For this reason it is not advisable to have controllers that reside in different time zones under one Continuum Network.
Note: Extended logs are stored in the db with UTC time stamp and are interpreted by Cyberstation via reports or groups.
