Milestone Central 3.7 - Manual (Page 24)

Milestone XProtect 3.7; Administrator’s Manual
Server: Use Across Time Zones
The XProtect Central Server registers date and time information using UTC, Coordinated Universal
Time.
This means that your XProtect Central Server is able to effortlessly receive and process event and
status information from surveillance system installations located in different time zones.
On XProtect Central Clients, time and date information will always be presented in local values,
based on the Client user’s regional settings, but actions performed in the Client will be registered in
UTC on the Server.
Tip: UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is the official world reference for time. While GMT
(Greenwich Mean Time) is still widely used, it has officially been replaced by UTC. Being based
upon atomic clocks, UTC is considered more accurate than GMT, which is based on the Earth’s
rotation and references to the positions of celestial bodies. In day-to-day use the difference is
negligible, and GMT and UTC are often used interchangeably.
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