The date of a planned event is automatically adapted to the time zone of the user’s browser.
We use the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) standard to compute time zone differences. If you are in a daylight saving time zone, your offset to UTC may change over the year.
Here is the list of planned events in the platform:
- Start and end date of a session
- Availability date of a course
- Mailing date of an email block
- Start and end date of a classroom block
The mail notification for scheduled custom reports is sent in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), regardless of the user's time zone.
Check your time zone
- At the top right of the homepage, click on your profile picture, then
Personal settings. - The time zone is displayed on the top right, under
Languages.
The time zone of a user on the platform is that of their web browser (itself corresponding to the time zone of their computer). It is displayed with the format Continent/Country (TZ database).
In the mobile application, the time zone of the platform corresponds to the time zone of Android or iOS.
Change your time zone
You cannot manually change the time zone of your account.
If the user connects to their account with a computer using another time zone, the user’s time zone in the platform will automatically change to the new value.
Dates of a planned event
When a user creates or edits a planned event, the date is defined based on the time zone of the user at the time of the action.
For all other users, the date of the event is automatically interpreted in their own time zone on the platform.
For example, if an author with a Central European Time (UTC+1) time zone creates a session starting at 10 AM, users with an Eastern Standard Time (UTC-5) time zone will see the session start at 4 AM.
Also, remember that the relative time difference between countries may change over the year (as they have their own notion of when daylight saving time should start and end).
Dates displayed in email notifications
Email notifications display the date of a planned event.
Email notifications display the date of a planned event according to the time zone of the recipient at the time when the email is sent, using the abbreviation of the user’s timezone.
If the time zone cannot be determined, the date is displayed with an indication of the Central European Time timezone.
If daylight saving time happens in the middle of a planned event, or between the start and end of a session, the email notification displays both time zones.