Tips for entering dates and times for holidays

Use the tips described in this section to help you enter dates and times into the Business Time Holidays form appropriately.

Entering dates for an international server

When the server resides internationally, it recognizes the short-date format of the server. For example, the German Business Time Holiday value entered in the <dd.mm.yy> format is recognized as it matches the date convention of the locale.

Related topics

Using-the-old-Business-Time-forms

Scheduling-workdays

Scheduling-holidays

Entering a holiday with no start time

To indicate a holiday without listing a start time, use the following format:

<date>,,  <endTime>

For example:

7/4/04,,5:00:00 P.M.

In this case, the start time defaults to 12:00:00 A.M.

Entering a holiday with no end time

To indicate a holiday without listing an end time, use the following format:

<date>,  <startTime>

For example:

7/26/04, 2:00:00 P.M.

In this case, the end time defaults to 11:59:59 P.M.

Entering a holiday with no start time and no end time

To indicate a holiday that lasts the entire 24-hour period, use the following format:

<date>

For example:

7/26/04

In this case, the start time defaults to 12:00:00 A.M., and the end time defaults to 11:59:59 P.M.

 

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