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1.6 Setting the Server Time and Date
The "Set Server Time/Date" option allows a Flex.View user to set the Time and Date on the RealFlex
Server.
Note: Access to this option may be disabled or protected by a password. For details on user level
access, please refer to Section 1.8.4, “Password Maintenance“.
Î To set the Server time and date:
1. From the Utilities menu, select the Set Server Time/Date option. The "Set Server Time/Date"
dialog box will appear:
2. Set the time and/or date for the RealFlex server. For details, please refer to Section 1.7.13.
3. Click on the Set button to apply the new time and date, or click on the Cancel button to abort the
operation.
Caution must be exercised when changing the date or time, because several programs
are executed on a time basis.
For example:
A report might be automatically scheduled to run at 07:00 a.m. each morning. If the time is
changed at 07:01 a.m. back to 06:59 a.m., the report will be printed again. This may not create
any specific problem unless some database points or counters are reset at the same time. It may
cause the loss of two minutes of valuable data.
Any time the Historical Data Collection subsystem is active and the date or time is changed in a
backward direction, you will record items in historical collection with double time stamps.
A separate, time-initiated task is activated via the rptcron file that will automatically read the
hardware clock and reset the internal system software time at a specified daily interval (usually at
two minutes after midnight). Caution should be exercised so as not to change the date or time
precisely when this program would be executed.
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