[Koha] Handling of TimeZones and different Calendars (Thailand Buddhist Calendar) on a single shared Koha server

[Jonathan Druart]

Hello Alex,

On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 at 05:09 Alex Shepherd <kiwi64ajs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I’m hoping to host several independent libraries on a single VM.
>
> The libraries are all in Asia spread across Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Bangkok
> and the server is a VM hosted on Digital Ocean in Singapore.
>
> The library in Bangkok have used the Buddhist calendar for some (not all)
> of their dates like DoB and some other date fields in the Bibliographic and
> other records.
>
> This is causing an issue with the date calculations for patron age and no
> doubt it will cause other issues.
>
> So this raises several issues for me:
>
> 1) Is there a tidy or supported way for me to handle the Buddhist dates?
>

Nope, I would recommend you to write a script to adjust the dates directly
in the database using sql queries.


> 2) Does Koha have any way to define a timezone and locale on a library by
> library basis where there are multiple libraries on the one server?
>

Unfortunately Koha uses the timezone of the system. So AFAIK you won't
manage to handle several libraries with different timezones on the same
server.
I agree that this is a big restriction Koha. We greatly improved our dates
related code, but we could do much more.


> Regards
>
> Alex Shepherd
>

Regards,
Jonathan


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