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Time Zone settings for Office 365 groups

Users and administrators should be able to change the TimeZone settings in Groups.
if a new file is added it is always in PST Time Zone which makes no sense at all.

You can work around this by appending this to the group URL: /_layouts/15/regionalsetng.aspx?noredirect=true

And if you browse to the site you have to request access as access is denied even though you are the owner and creator of the group.
This also doesn't make any sense.

If you're in the first release you can see the "Site Settings" when clicking the Gear Icon but you are always redirected to the Group again.
Atleast append this to the links: ?noredirect=true

Also, time zone settings should be in the Group Creation wizard so users can choose it while creating the group.

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  • Ade Adebanjo commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is very confusing, we should have an option in the admin centre to change the time zone.
    Please fix!!

  • carl flanagan commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Just discovered this wonderful feature today! Thanks Microsoft for thinking beyond the Redmond bubble.

    Pacific Standard Time. At least your developers could have chosen UTC!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Why in the name of all that is holy would you default a time zone to Pacific. My students are getting notifications about meetings at 3 am. Ridiculous.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is confusing when customers receive emails showing the time zone and contact our admins to correct the time zone.

  • Edgardo Menta commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is a must! Having send emails remembering of a meeting you should consider to add to your calendar, and showing a confuse time, is like fixing the paint of a car that have no motor. Since requested this feature 3 and half years, since you responded it is going to be considered 2 and half. If a take this times to answer and resolve with my customers they kick my ***!!!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any update?

    Created a new group then spent a good amount of time investigating and responding to support requests from our users asking us to change timezone for the group which is currently set to PST. This default is causing confusion...not to mention the time wasted by our own support resources. Get it together Microsoft, this should be basic functionality.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    My 365 account is set to central standard time. Created a group and an appointment. The appointment appeared on other's calendars in central standard time, as expected. However, a remainder went out to everyone suggesting they add to calendar and the reminder appeared in pacific time zone.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We can maintain the SharePoint defaults (in a roundabout way), but cannot manage the Exchange side of things. If it was at least possible to alter the timezone for group mailboxes with Set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration we could probably solve this ourselves.

  • James Reed commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    When users are added to a group, users get the email that there are calendar items upcoming.

    Don't miss upcoming events
    You're new to the _______ group and might not have these events on your calendar yet. Add them now.

    Dates and times are based on the group's timezone setting: Pacific Standard Time.

    But we can't change this value???

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    My meeting was shared at the wrong time because of this issue. This is a big problem.

  • David Mounsey commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    We need there to be a single location within the O365 Admin whereby we can set the default timezone, language and region setting that ALL MS services pick up and use.
    This includes Teams, Groups, OD4B, Sharepoint & Exchange.... and even the Admin Centre itself!!
    I cant spend by day going and fixing this after users create (eg) a new Group and have to go in and change the site settings

  • Mathew Smethurst-Evans commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I think you have to be an admin and/or the owner of a group. others may confirm this.
    I think you also have to be in First Release, or Targeted Release ??

    In SharePoint, click...

    gear icon (top right), Site information, view all site settings, Regional Settings

    or can you just add this to the end of a site URL ??:

    _layouts/15/regionalsetng.aspx

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