How to use the JMobile Client in different time zones?
June 10, 2017 by Will Blackwell

What to know

JMobile Windows Client provides an option to handle the visualization of the timestamp information of a project.


What to do

From the Settings dialog 4 specific options, showed in the next figure, are available:

The Time settings information is used by the client to adapt the widgets timestamp informations according to the desired behavior.

  • Use Widget Defaults all the timestamp informations of the widgets used in the project are displayed according to each widget settings provided at programming time in Studio.
  • Local Time all the timestamp informations of the widgets used in the project refers to the PC where the Client is installed local time.
  • Global Time all the timestamp informations refers to the UTC time (Coordinated Universal Time).
  • Server Time all the timestamp informations of the widgets used in the project refers to the operator panel time.

Note: to be properly used this feature requires the panel RCT to be set with the correct zone and DST (Daylight Saving Time) options.


Applies to

JMobile Windows Client version 1.60 and above

Share this Post: