Hello Alex, On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 at 05:09 Alex Shepherd <kiwi64...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys, > > I’m hoping to host several independent libraries on a single VM. > > The libraries are all in Asia spread across Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Bangkok > and the server is a VM hosted on Digital Ocean in Singapore. > > The library in Bangkok have used the Buddhist calendar for some (not all) > of their dates like DoB and some other date fields in the Bibliographic and > other records. > > This is causing an issue with the date calculations for patron age and no > doubt it will cause other issues. > > So this raises several issues for me: > > 1) Is there a tidy or supported way for me to handle the Buddhist dates? > Nope, I would recommend you to write a script to adjust the dates directly in the database using sql queries. > 2) Does Koha have any way to define a timezone and locale on a library by > library basis where there are multiple libraries on the one server? > Unfortunately Koha uses the timezone of the system. So AFAIK you won't manage to handle several libraries with different timezones on the same server. I agree that this is a big restriction Koha. We greatly improved our dates related code, but we could do much more. > Regards > > Alex Shepherd > Regards, Jonathan > > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
