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Time Zone Considerations

To achieve consistent results when setting and querying times (some stored in the Provisioning Server and some on endpoints referred to by the Java CS), we recommended that you install all components on computers configured to use the same time zone.

The Java CS is neutral regarding all time values passed in and out of it, and does not perform time zone transformations on them. The DYN Provisioning Manager Plug-in, which deals with dynamic endpoint types, accepts times in the local time zone and converts them to UTC. The plug-in passes them on to the Java CS, and does the opposite transformation from UTC to the local time zone for query results.