Transparent configuration of virtual hosts supporting multiple time zones in an enterprise platform

A computer system for transparent configuration of virtual hosts supporting multiple time zones, comprising:

• a computer processor to execute a set of program code instructions;
• and
• a memory to hold the program code instructions, in which the program code instructions comprises program code to perform,
• launching, on a physical server in a first time zone, a virtual host process having a timestamp service initialized to a second time zone relative to the first time zone;
• launching an application from within the virtual host process;
• configuring, on the physical server, a port listener to receive an IP packet from a network interface and to identify a time zone correspondence based on, at least in part, information in the IP packet;
• and
• intercepting, at the port listener, the IP packet from the network interface to forward the IP packet to at least the virtual host process.

A computer program product embodied in a non-transitory computer readable medium, the computer readable medium having stored thereon a sequence of instructions which, when executed by a processor causes the processor to execute a process to implement transparent configuration of virtual hosts supporting multiple time zones, the process comprising:

• launching, on a physical server in a first time zone, a virtual host process having a timestamp service initialized to a second time zone relative to the first time zone;
• launching an application from within the virtual host process;
• configuring, on the physical server, a port listener to receive an IP packet from a network interface and to identify a time zone correspondence based on, at least in part, information in the IP packet;
• and
• intercepting, at the port listener, the IP packet from the network interface to forward the IP packet to at least the virtual host process.