C•CURE 800/8000 Software Configuration Guide - Tyco Security ...

Time Specifications OverviewTime Specifications OverviewThe C•CURE 800/8000 uses Time Specifications for access control and toperform certain activities, such as time-based events, at specified times.Example:You can use a Time Specification to specify at which times a person hasaccess to a door (access control) or at which times alarms will beautomatically armed (time-based event).Holiday Lists are applied to Time Specifications differently depending on thethe Holiday mode in which your C•CURE 800/8000 system is operating:• Default Holidays mode – allows you to configure up to 24 Holiday Listssystem-wide. Each of these is automatically assigned to all your systemTime Specifications for host use to act as overrides preventing activationof the Time Specifications on the Holidays defined in the lists.• Distributed Holidays mode – allows you to configure an unlimitednumber of Holiday Lists system-wide. You can select one or more ofthese to assign to a Time Specification for host use to act as an overridepreventing activation of that Time Specification on the Holidays definedin the list.(For more information about these modes and how to change them, see the“Holiday Lists Overview” on page 11-2 in this manual and Chapter 1 “SettingSystem Variables” in the C•CURE 800/8000 System Maintenance Guide.)Regardless of the Holiday mode your system is using, you can also add aHoliday List as a time interval to a Time Specification for two purposes:• To provide an alternate schedule for the Holidays on the list.Example:• You include the Holiday list as an interval in the Time Specificationwith a start time of 9 AM and end time of 12 PM.NOTEIn a system using the Distributed Holiday mode, you must first assign thesame Holiday List to the Time Specification for host use (as an override)and also download it to the iSTAR controller or apC panel.23–2 C•CURE 800/8000 Software Configuration Guide