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

[Alex Shepherd]

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?

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?

Regards

Alex Shepherd