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Citrix Time Zone Support

Saturday, 16 June 2007 by Michel Roth

Jeff Muir yet again has published an insightful article on a hairy subject: time zones in Citrix environments: "One of the most confusing things ever invented is time zones. Well, they aren�t inherently confusing by themselves but when you start talking about different time zones and daylight savings, then things get messy. Add in a factor of government zeal and you have daylight savings that can change dates depending on the laws and years that pass."

"In PortICA we have a very different model. Because we are a single user system, we can get away with changing the real time zone during the session. This gets rid of the need to fool applications with the hook since it is already embedded with Windows with the server and client time zone matching. We do not match the time itself. This approach greatly simplifies the code which now really just to worry about saving and restoring the �real� time zone for the machine."

Read the article here.