Time Zone adjustment for "Date Only"?

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A field called “DateFrom” in a form is used to get a date from the user. The field settings are set to capture only the date part, not the time. Looking at some documents with values stored, I see that only the date is stored in the Time/Date field. Therefore, to my understanding, no time zone information should be stored in the field.

Now I what to mail the content of this field in a scheduled agent. I read the content using the following line of code:

dateString = cstr(doc.DateFrom(0))

Now I have been reported some examples where the content of the mail differs by one day from the content I will see in the document. Users may have used different time zone settings to create the document.

I am completely wrong here, I am very sure that Notes should present just the same date for ALL users looking into this field, no matter which time zone they are in. Right…?!

Thanks for any hint, Dirk

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Subject: Time Zone adjustment for “Date Only”?

Not sure I understand this. But I can tell you that when these people pull this date, it is from their personal pc’s operating system. Not the server’s operating system. So, whatever that date is, is what they will get when they select it. The date shouldn’t be changed to any other time zone, based on who is on that form.