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$TimeZoneEntity

gives the time zone Entity corresponding to the locale setting for your computer operating system.

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$TimeZoneEntity

$TimeZoneEntity

gives the time zone Entity corresponding to the locale setting for your computer operating system.

Details

  • The Wolfram System uses the locale setting for your computer operating system to determine the appropriate time zone Entity.
  • If locale information is not available, Zulu time will be used as the default time zone Entity.
  • $TimeZoneEntity=z resets the current time zone entity for purposes of functions like DateString, DateList, and AbsoluteTime.
  • A list of available time zone entities can be found using EntityList["TimeZone"].

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Basic Examples  (1)

Show the current locale time zone setting:

Scope  (1)

EntityList["TimeZone"] can be used to find available "TimeZone" entities:

Wolfram Research (2015), $TimeZoneEntity, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$TimeZoneEntity.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2015), $TimeZoneEntity, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$TimeZoneEntity.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2015. "$TimeZoneEntity." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$TimeZoneEntity.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2015). $TimeZoneEntity. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$TimeZoneEntity.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_$timezoneentity, author="Wolfram Research", title="{$TimeZoneEntity}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$TimeZoneEntity.html}", note=[Accessed: 11-August-2025]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_$timezoneentity, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={$TimeZoneEntity}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/$TimeZoneEntity.html}, note=[Accessed: 11-August-2025]}