Problem / Question
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What time zones are available?
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Are there restrictions on time zones?
Solution / Answer
Matrix Booking uses IANA time zones , also referred to as the tz or Olson database . IANA time zones have the rules for calendar and clock changes built in. For example, the Europe/London time zone is the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) (formerly know as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)) when not in daylight savings and to UTC + 1 (where 1 hour has been added to the time) when the time zone changes to daylight savings.
Note: offsets from UTC aren’t valid time zones (they don’t incorporate rules for calendar and clock changes). Shorter colloquial time zone codes aren’t used as they can be ambiguous. For example, BST can refer to British Summer Time, Bangladesh Standard Time, or Bougainville Standard Time.
An organisation can specify different time zones for locations and resources within a hierarchy. This is useful if you have sites in different countries. To switch this feature on, it can be set up during your implementation or you can raise a support ticket after your implementation.
Warning: disabling the multi-time zones feature switch after it has been enabled doesn’t automatically revert the locations back to the organisation’s time zone. This needs to be done manually.