About system time and local time – Grass Valley iTX Desktop v.2.6 User Manual

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Quick tour of the iTX Desktop

About service status indicators in layout components

A number of layout components contain a service status indicator box, usually in their top right

corner.

A green light in the box indicates that an iTX service that the component depends on is working

properly. Where the service is running on an Output Server, the box may display the name of

the playout channel running on that server.

This illustration shows two service status indicators in the Schedule Manager on the iTX

Channel Control layout:

The color of an indicator light shows the status of a service. The colors have these meanings:

Indicator

Status

(green)

Normal. The service is operating normally.

(yellow)

Warning. A current system event or condition may prevent the

service operating normally; the service continues to run.

(red)

Failure. The service has failed.

(black)

Off. The service is not running.

About system time and local time

In many television broadcasting stations, system time is measured in the international standard

time system known as UTC (Co-ordinated Universal Time). For each channel in your iTX system,

your system administrator can specify local time as an offset from UTC; this may include

adjustments for periods of daylight saving time (DST). Whether a layout component shows UTC

or local time depends upon the component. The following components on the iTX Channel

Control layout can display times of either type.

The Content Selector. You can toggle the display between UTC and local time by clicking

the UTC button on the component.

More details

, page 20.

The Event Editor. As with the Content Selector, you can toggle the display between UTC

and local time by clicking the UTC button on the component.

More details

, page 94.

The Schedule Grid. The Start Time column in the Schedule Grid shows the start time of

schedule events in UTC. By adding the Local Start Time column to the Schedule Grid, you

can view the start time of schedule events in local time.

More details

, page 142.

The following component on the iTX Channel Control layout displays time information in local

time.

The Timeline Display.

More details

, page 127.

March 2015

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