Daylight Savings: It's that time when you can enjoy an extra hour of sleep. But in the world of payment processing, it means implementing mechanisms that ensure that that no problems occur due to the time change. Global Web, a global payment processing company, describes these mechanisms briefly below.
Ensuring that a merchant's payment processing system is ready for the time change during Daylight Savings is of paramount importance. Since payment processing systems contain highly sensitive data, such as customer credit card information, it critical that the system function perfectly no matter what. Global Web, an expert on securing payment processing systems, briefly explains how payment processors ensure that merchants do not experience any errors during the switch to Daylight Savings time.
An online payment transaction relies on POSIX--Portable Operating System Interface time--the time that has elapsed since the first of January, 1970. The trouble with daylight savings is that some merchants may encounter errors during the time switch from standard to Daylight Savings. The reason is that their system may miscalculate conversions when converting their time into POSIX. If any error occurs, then the payment transactions could go haywire.
To prevent such errors, payment processors ensure that the merchant's system automatically uses POSIX, instead of making any compilated conversions. The payment processor also ensures that the merchant’s server is using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), rather than local time. Finally, the payment processing company will ensure that the merchant’s web server is updated when necessary. Indeed, when it is possible, merchants should ensure that their web server uses the NTP--Network Time Protocol--to keep in sync with others.
Indeed, payment processing professionals, like those at Global Web, work hard to ensure that merchants do not encounter any problems when Daylight Savings rolls in. In order to prevent any errors from occurring, payment processing company need to ensure that financial transactions are perfectly sync with the right time. When it comes to online transactions, safety and confidentiality is of paramount importance--which is why Global Web works around the clock to insure that merchants experience secure transactions.
About Global Web
Global Web is a subscription processing firm that operates on an international level. The company was founded in 2007 and its headquarters are located in New York City. The company provides merchants with the latest subscription management services, as well as secure e check and credit card processing. Global Web may be contacted at (877) 855-1753 or via Facebook, Google+ or Blogger.
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