QuickFIX - set StartTime\EndTime

Question

QuickFIX has a configuration file where you set StartTime and EndTime. Unfortunately AFAIK QuickFIX only supports UTC for this configuration, whereas exchanges are often timezone dependent. This means that you need to remember to update this configuration file every time the clock changes.

Is there a way to set the StartTime \ EndTime parameters programatically instead of through the configuration file? That way you could adjust the timeset the correct values programatically.

Answer 1

There is a way to set this. You can can set a timezone as follows:

TimeZone=America/New_York

see the configuration guide.

It is weird that it is not in the quickfix configuration guide and it is present in the quickfixJ guide.