Phoenix 7.0 timezone change

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I have installed Phoenix 7.0 on a computer with WIN 7 SP1 professional (German). The language setting of my computer is Deutsch(Switzerland), the timezone is accordingly Switzerland ((UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rom, Stockholm, Wien), my computer shows the correct time in this timezone. In the NCA results “core output” the time is correct. However, in NCA “History” timezone is different, it is UTC which is my local time minus 2hrs. This means the times in NCA “core output” and in NCA “History” are different !!!

Example: my computer time is correctly 15:50 this is corrctly shown in NCA “core output” but NCA “History” timestamp shows 13:50 (screenshot attached).

How to solve this issue? The issue is the same if I change the language settings of my computer to Englisch (USA).

Thanks

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Hi Dieter, this is by design and cannot be be changed by the user.

The rationale is that by having the history tab timestamp everything by UTC it is clear and unambiguous what happened in the project even if it has been worked on at different sites around the world.

Simon

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Using UTC for date/time stamps with computerized systems is recommended by the FDA: http://www.fda.gov/OHRMS/DOCKETS/98fr/04d-0440-gdl0002.PDF

There is no way to change the time stamp in the Phoenix history; it is hard-coded to use UTC.

For practical purposes, UTC aligns with the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) time zone

Bernd

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Simon, Bernd, thanks a lot for your helpful answer. I am currently validating Phoenix for GLP use, that is why I was asking