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Post From: Imported files do not show UTC not local time on chart

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uM8137 - Posts: 180
One reason why it would be nice to be able to declare the location of the timestamps in an imported data file is that, due to Daylight Saving time changes throughout the year, it isn't possible to correctly work-around the situation when one wants to import a file that has New York City (NYC) time. NYC time is the most common timestamp for US equity data. However, it is a mix of EST (winter; UTC -5) and EDT (summer; UTC -4) timezones. In this case, one's data is -5 hours part of the year, and -4 hours for the other part of the year (summer when EDT is used in NYC). So the first, obvious workaround doesn't work: one cannot just set the SierraChart global time zone to be +5 or +4 and have the import of a year of data work correctly; because +5 is the correct setting only part of the year. Hence it would be quite useful, for correctness sake, to have the ability to say that ones import file has timestamps using the local time in a particular location, such as NYC, and have the adjustment to move each specific time point to UTC happen according to when daylight saving time is in effect or not. Please consider adding such a feature.