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TIME ZONES

Unless I'm mistaken, it appears there have been requests to add time zones into various SolarWinds tools since 2004.  This feature is an absolute MUST HAVE.  Our single Orion NPM server monitors nodes globally.  It currently takes significant assistance from a SQL dba to modify any scripts to adjust for the various time zones.  I attempted to create a custom property in Node management for a GMT offset integer so it can be used later for reporting in Report Writer, but this is insufficient as there are some cities that have half hour offsets (Bangalore, India is GMT +5.5).

Please tell me I'm missing something.  Otherwise I cannot understand how this feature could be skipped for 8 years!  How can a tool like Orion NPM miss such an obvious feature!

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  • My company also struggles with the time differences between our support staff and our customer's node/application monitors.  If there was an ability to add time zone and daylight savings time info to a node when added to NPM along with an ability to detect Orion user time zones and DST, maybe through the browser, it would then seem like a simple task for SW to provide both of these times (Orion user and customer node) in things such as logs and node/application detail screens.  This should also give us the ability to do things like generating alerts or reports using the local time of either the Orion user or the customer, depending on the target audience for the alert/report.

    I would give this enhancement 100 thumbs up if it was possible since this is one of my biggest issues with the use of Orion in our environment.  Wish there were more in the Thwack community that were speaking out about this.  For reference I did find a very old thread on the topic ()

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  • My company also struggles with the time differences between our support staff and our customer's node/application monitors.  If there was an ability to add time zone and daylight savings time info to a node when added to NPM along with an ability to detect Orion user time zones and DST, maybe through the browser, it would then seem like a simple task for SW to provide both of these times (Orion user and customer node) in things such as logs and node/application detail screens.  This should also give us the ability to do things like generating alerts or reports using the local time of either the Orion user or the customer, depending on the target audience for the alert/report.

    I would give this enhancement 100 thumbs up if it was possible since this is one of my biggest issues with the use of Orion in our environment.  Wish there were more in the Thwack community that were speaking out about this.  For reference I did find a very old thread on the topic ()

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