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+<!-- Copyright (c) 2007-2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies) All rights reserved. -->
+<!-- This component and the accompanying materials are made available under the terms of the License 
+"Eclipse Public License v1.0" which accompanies this distribution, 
+and is available at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html". -->
+<!-- Initial Contributors:
+    Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+Contributors: 
+-->
+<!DOCTYPE concept
+  PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Concept//EN" "concept.dtd">
+<concept id="GUID-FE2E8E58-6656-534E-A052-095AF559A482" xml:lang="en"><title>Alarm
+Time Formats</title><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
+<p>The Alarm Server supports two types of time formats used to express the
+expiry time of an alarm: </p>
+<ul>
+<li id="GUID-90BAC4D4-DD00-51D2-8661-51E2680DA315"><p> <b>Fixed time format</b> -
+The alarm expires at the given UTC time and has no associated UTC offset.
+The alarm is not rescheduled when an UTC offset or DST change occur. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-A007966C-84AD-56E2-B692-7CAE4B3A648F"><p> <b>Floating time format</b> -
+The alarm expires at the given local (wall clock) time in the current UTC
+offset and are re-scheduled when either the UTC offset or DST change occurs. </p> </li>
+</ul>
+<p>The Alarm Server maintains a queue of alarms and the format of these alarms
+may be either fixed or floating time format. </p>
+<p>Hence, if the user adds an alarm defining one of its characteristics as <xref href="GUID-20A42BF7-A0F5-3177-9592-E3AE097B4CF2.dita#GUID-20A42BF7-A0F5-3177-9592-E3AE097B4CF2/GUID-EBAEFA64-7892-32D6-B8BF-EBE4EC9AFB83"><apiname>TAlarmCharacteristics::EAlarmCharacteristicsIsFixed</apiname></xref>,
+then it is added in the alarm queue as fixed time format based alarm. </p>
+<p> </p>
+<p> <b>NOTE</b>: </p>
+<ul>
+<li id="GUID-14A58869-C859-5F7B-A28A-319F180DD8CE"><p> <b>UTC time</b> is
+the non-secure system time in UTC (UTC time range is from 0-24, so after 12,
+the time is expressed in PM). </p> <p> <b>Standard Time</b> = UTC Time + Timezone/UTC
+offset </p> <p> <b>Wall Clock/local time</b> = UTC Time + Timezone/UTC offset
+± DST offset </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-24513E63-880C-5147-9A5F-AFF047370175"><p>All alarms (irrespective
+of the time format) undergo rescheduling and re-evaluation of their next due
+time (considering their repeat definition) only when either system time/date
+or workdays change. </p> </li>
+<li id="GUID-80D105D4-D99D-56F3-9D92-11F7686FF3C1"><p>Only the floating time
+format based alarms undergo re-scheduling and re-evaluation of their next
+due time if the system time/date, workdays, UTC offset changes or DST rollover
+event occurs. </p> </li>
+</ul>
+</conbody></concept>
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