Latest Contributions by CarrieQuast

I know its been awhile, but I'm working on a similar project, with the same error-  did you ever figure out what was causing it?   ... View more

UTC is more often than not a pain.  I've ended up creating date fields specifically to store our local time and having to calculate the offset.  Or, store the date or the year as a text field (I know that is a cardinal sin against the data gods, for a variety of reasons).  Yes, web apps will do on-the-fly conversion to local time based on the viewing device, but if you are doing database queries not in a web environment you have to do extra steps to get what you want.  And yes, maybe if you go Portal you can avoid UTC(?). I do appreciate WHY Esri did this -- and I'm sure if I worked for a multi-national conglomerate that operated in five different time zones I'd think UTC was great.  But for the majority of Esri users it is a flaming hoop through which to jump.    Okay, I feel better now.  🙂 ... View more

So, my IT Server guy is off for a few days, so I'm going to pursue the python scripting path until he gets back.  But, I think we are going to want an Enterprise GeoDatabase eventually, so it'll be good to get that set up.  Thank You Again. ... View more