Previous Topic: Identifying Conversation ParticipantsNext Topic: Format Requirement for Imported Attachments


Timestamps in IB Unified Dump Files Are in EST

All events in the CMS database are stored in UTC time, but IB Unified dump files record events in EST. However, IMFrontEnd.exe is unable to reliably and universally convert EST times to UTC because the dump file data does not contain time zone information to enable it to calculate daylight saving adjustments. Instead, IMFrontEnd.exe assumes that it is running in the same time zone as the Bloomberg server that generated the IB Unified dump file and converts EST times to UTC on this basis.