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+<span id="utilities"></span><h1>Custom PyAMS utilities<a class="headerlink" href="#custom-pyams-utilities" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
+<p>PyAMS_utils provides a small set of utilities. You can create some of them as global utilities registered in
+the global components registry; other ones can be created manually by a site administrator and
+are then registered automatically.</p>
+<div class="section" id="server-timezone">
+<h2>Server timezone<a class="headerlink" href="#server-timezone" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
+<p>To manage timezones correctly, and display datetimes based on current server timezone, all datetimes should
+be defined and stored in UTC.</p>
+<p>PyAMS_utils provides a <a class="reference internal" href="pyams_utils.timezone.html#pyams_utils.timezone.utility.ServerTimezoneUtility" title="pyams_utils.timezone.utility.ServerTimezoneUtility"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal"><span class="pre">ServerTimezoneUtility</span></code></a> which
+allows you to assign a default timezone to your server.</p>
+<p>To display a datetime with correct timezone, you can use the <a class="reference internal" href="pyams_utils.timezone.html#pyams_utils.timezone.tztime" title="pyams_utils.timezone.tztime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">tztime</span></code></a> function,
+which assign server timezone to the given parameter:</p>
+<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">datetime</span>
+<span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">pyams_utils.timezone</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">tztime</span>
+
+<span class="n">now</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utcnow</span><span class="p">()</span>
+<span class="n">my_date</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">tztime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">now</span><span class="p">)</span>  <span class="c"># converts *now* to server timezone</span>
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+<p>We could imagine that datetimes could be displayed with current user timezone. But it&#8217;s quite impossible to know
+the user timazone from a server request. The only options are:</p>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>you ask an authenticated user to update a timezone setting in his profile</li>
+<li>you can include Javascript libraries which will try to detect browser timezone from their computer configuration, and
+do an AJAX request to update data in their session.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>That should require an update of <code class="xref py py-func docutils literal"><span class="pre">tzinfo()</span></code> adapter to get timezone info from session, request or user profile.</p>
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+<div class="section" id="zeo-connection">
+<h2>ZEO connection<a class="headerlink" href="#zeo-connection" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
+<p>Several PyAMS utilities (like the tasks scheduler or the medias converter) are working with dedicated processes,
+are connected to main PyAMS process through ØMQ, and use ZEO connections for their PyAMS database access.</p>
+<p>Clients of these processes have to send settings of the ZEO connections that they should use.</p>
+<p>The ZEOConnection utility can be created by the site manager through the web management interface (ZMI) from the
+<em>Control panel</em>:</p>
+<img alt="_images/zeo-add-menu.png" src="_images/zeo-add-menu.png" />
+<p>ZEO connection creation form allows you to define all settings of a ZEO connection:</p>
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+<li><a class="reference internal" href="#zeo-connection">ZEO connection</a></li>
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