Defining a Production Day

Positive Offset (Late Start)

If you want your production day to begin at 1200 noon and continue until 1200 noon the following day, you define the start of the production day as 1200 (+1200). When offsetting the start time, it is important to remember that no time is lost, the hours between the start of the calendar day and the start of the production day are merely shifted from the beginning of the production day to its end. There are still 24 hours in the day.

The figure compares the calendar day to a production day with an offset of +1200. Using this production offset, a job scheduled to launch at 0800 (8:00 AM.) on June 10th (production date) will not actually launch until 0800 on June 11th (calendar date).