idea Remove Editor Tracking Time-zone Restriction in ArcGIS Enterprise Ideas

Remove Editor Tracking Time-zone Restriction

MikeLouwrens — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 03:02:36 GMT

When publishing a feature class with Editor Tracking enabled to a Feature Service we are forced to use UTC zone because sometimes editors can be in a different time-zone. Many users though never have users in other time zones, or even aren't concerned about where their editors are, but would like to track edits in local or database time.

Please allow feature services to use editor tracking in database time and not force UTC. Many queries are based on local/database time, and having to convert these queries into UTC is unnecessary overhead.

If anything, the Error that occurs when editor tracking is enabled in local/database time should at most be a Warning to the user that they can then choose to ignore or fix.

Re: Remove Editor Tracking Time-zone Restriction

ThomasEdghill — Fri, 27 Jul 2018 16:46:11 GMT

Thank you for posting this Idea, Mike.

There is a way to set the UTC time field to follow specific time zones from ArcGIS Server Manager, as shown in the following Knowledge article:

How To: Set the UTC time field to follow a specific time zone

I'm curious if this workflow of manually enforcing a specific time zone on the service works for you in this case?

Re: Remove Editor Tracking Time-zone Restriction - Status changed to: Implemented

Sarah_Hanson — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:16:46 GMT

The requested feature is available in the latest versions of ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Enterprise and has been for some time now. Linking to a few resources that may be helpful to you all below. Happy mapping!

Enable editor tracking to record time in database time

ArcGIS Pro: Enable editor tracking