Concept: Local Time Zones

Local Time Zones

You can configure a local time zone for your tenant, locations, and individual users to support operations in multiple locations with different time zones. Workday ensures that data is accurate in reference to the current time at a user location.

Workday supports all IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) time zones and enables you to configure preferred time zones. When you don't configure a local time zone, Workday defaults the local time zone for every tenant, location, and user to Pacific Standard Time.

Configuring Local Time Zones

Use the

Configure Preferred Time Zones

(secured to the Set Up: System
domain) task to configure the time zones that Workday displays in the time zone prompts for your tenant. See Reference: Edit Tenant Setup - System. If you've opted in to the Workday 32 - Time Zones feature, then Workday uses the user's local time zone.

To ensure that initiation and event dates correspond to employees' local dates, Workday recommends that you set the time zone to correspond to the employees' local time zone when you're running batch processes.

The time zone labels include offsets from standard Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). Example: During Daylight Saving Time (DST), Workday doesn't adjust the offsets, but adjusts the time accurately to reflect DST.

You can set user account deactivation to occur at a precise time. The worker's time zone can be set by default when automating account deactivation with the Terminate Workday Account
business process. When you access the

Edit Workday Account

task, Workday displays the time in the time zone of the user performing the task.