Web Services Support for NTP

Traditionally, CMP Converged Monetisation Platform. The MDS Global product that supports customer care and billing for digital service providers. is operated with the system clock manually updated twice a year to reflect the move in or out of British Summer Time, or BST. In this case, throughout the year, the time zone is set to Universal Time Coordinated (UTC), also known as zero hour or 'zulu' time. As a result, regardless of the time of year, web service XML- or JSON-based information exchange systems that use the Internet for direct application-to-application interaction. These systems can include programs, objects, messages, or documents. responses have dates/times suffixed with Z to indicate zero hour/zulu time, as shown in the following example:

Alternatively, CMP can be operated with a Network In the context of CMP, the infrastructure on which usage of registered customers will be measured – this could be a mobile phone network, broadband network or other non-telecommunications network. Time Protocol (NTP) source controlling the system clock. To do this, use the GMT2 time zone setting on the server. This tracks United Kingdom time, automatically switching between Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and BST at 02:00 on the appropriate days. In this case, web service responses have dates/times suffixed with +1:00 during BST to indicate the 1 hour offset, as shown in the following example:

The times supplied reflect the actual time - that is, there is no need to add the offset for the time to reflect the time of the related activity.