One option was to set up several server farms, with one farm for each time zone, but that would have been expensive. Fortunately for his employer, Duke routinely browses the support forums at Citrix's Web site. I called for a demo and had it up and running the next week. We installed Time Machine on each of our application servers. It runs in the background.
Users have a log-on script configured to their time zone.
We installed it, and we haven't looked back. A spokesman for San Jose-based SolutionSoft Systems Inc., which developed Time Machine, said that in addition to NT and 2000 Terminal Server, the tool also runs on Unix. But many Unix-based server systems accommodate multiple time zones. Aggar said it's only in recent months that the time-zone problem has become an important issue with customers. Aggar wouldn't say if Microsoft is working on its own time fix, but he did acknowledge that Microsoft recommends Time Machine and said it may be the only commercial utility available that solves the problem.