Replace all datetime registration (Employment, positions, ...) with "date only registration"

Steven Coemans on 7/10/2019 10:05:18 AM

D365 for Talent uses datetime registrations at all levels (dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss), including: 1) Worker position assignment 2) Employment 3) Term of employment 4) Position effective date This leads to a series of challenges: 1) D365 FT does not always default the timestamp correctly in different timezones. 2) End-users need to pay explicit attention to these timestamps. 3) Becasue of time conversion towards GMT, this leads to challenges when interfacing to other systems. For example 03/05/2019 00:00:00, becomes 02/05/2019 23:00:00 in GMT +1. This leads to extra conversion work on the interface and makes the solution more difficult to scale up, when faced with a customer active in a wide range of timezones. When the datetime behavior would be replaced by "date only" behavior, these issues will be solved. This is imo a best practice among competing HRIS solutions. Vote for this idea and make D365FT ready for the enterprise market.

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Administrator on 9/24/2019 9:18:57 PM

Thank you for your suggestion. We’re considering this functionality for a future release. This posting is provided “as is” with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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RE: Replace all datetime registration (Employment, positions, ...) with "date only registration"

Richard Blanc on 12/4/2020 12:40:49 PM

Must have!

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RE: Replace all datetime registration (Employment, positions, ...) with "date only registration"

Laura Farner on 11/26/2020 2:57:43 PM

a really essential point which must be implemented!

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RE: Replace all datetime registration (Employment, positions, ...) with "date only registration"

Marianna Vallazza on 11/26/2020 1:11:47 PM

Absolutely a must, can only confirm what has been stated above! Having the timestamp creates issues with any kind of integration (payroll, power platform, etc). For organizations working on different time zones - hence almost any organization with multiple subsidiaries - it creates confusion, with employees having to think in GMT terms when entering dates where the time does not add value.

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RE: Replace all datetime registration (Employment, positions, ...) with "date only registration"

Steve Page on 10/15/2020 10:43:03 AM

Major pain point and issue for us too. Cannot see any benefit only negative from having the time zone in here. If I was hired on Jan 1, 2020 in Singapore when data is viewed from the US it indicates I started on Dec 31, 2019. That doesn't make any sense. Effectively when I pull data for our Reporting I need to be very careful to lift local time zone sensitive data rather than the data from the time zone I am working as this could and does result in inaccurate Headcount and FTE figures.

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RE: Replace all datetime registration (Employment, positions, ...) with "date only registration"

Claire Dugmore - Jones on 8/13/2020 8:42:00 AM

We've just launched and this has caused us numerous issues with workarounds having to be applied to ensure colleagues are paid once data is passed through to LOKI.. This would be a game changer for us and would reduce the risk inaccuracies in keying

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RE: Replace all datetime registration (Employment, positions, ...) with "date only registration"

Tobias Glad on 8/5/2020 9:30:54 AM

Agree with both the issue and the comment.

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RE: Replace all datetime registration (Employment, positions, ...) with "date only registration"

Majken Touborg on 10/10/2019 7:19:28 AM

This is such a pain-point for all customers I've worked with. Both in F&O and in Talent.
I haven't met a single customer who want to register a specific timestamp for employment start or end dates, position assignment dates etc.
On the contrary they are all spending a lot of time figuring out which start and end times should be used in order for dates to appear the same in all company sites across the world. And ongoing a lot of time to adjust date+times that were entered wrongly.

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