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In this tutorial, we will learn how to change the timezone in salesforce. Also, we will cover these topics:
- How to change timezone in salesforce
- How to change timezone in the apex
- How to change time format in Salesforce
- How to change my time in Salesforce
- How to change others time in salesforce
- How to change calendar time in salesforce
- How to change time option in salesforce
- How to change date and time in salesforce
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How to change timezone in salesforce
Salesforce is an American company started in San Francisco, California USA. It has been more than two decades, and over 150,00 (Hundred fifty thousand) popular companies are building their business using salesforce.
The users or employees from these companies are located in different geographical locations with different timezones. The scenario may occur where the employee(s) want to change the timezone in salesforce.
So they can change the timezone using the following steps in Salesforce:
Step 1. On the dashboard of salesforce click on the View Profile option on the top right corner of the screen and then click on the Settings from there.
Step 2. Inside the settings click on the Language & Time Zone and you will be able to see the page with Time zone information.
In case, instead of this page, you are seeing this message “We can’t display this page because your browser blocks cross-domain cookies, but you can view this page in Salesforce Classic. Click here to open this page in Salesforce Classic.”
In that case, Click on the blue link which says Click here to open this page in salesforce Classic. This will open this page in a classic mode which is similar to the Lightening one.
Step 3. From this page, you can change the following settings, and once completed click on the Save button.
- Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Central Daylight Time (America/Monterrey)
- Locale: English (United States)
- Language: English
- Email Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8)
So, we have learned how to change the timezone in salesforce from the dashboard of the salesforce account.
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How to change timezone in the apex
Salesforce has various declarative tools like workflow rules, Process Builders, visual flow, Apex, etc. Out of these tools, the popular ones are visual flow and Apex as they offer wide operations.
Apex is one of the popular tools currently being used by most companies. The steps shared in our previous section “How to change timezone in salesforce” will work for Apex as well.
How to change time format in Salesforce
In this section, we will learn how to change the time format in the salesforce account. The steps shared will work for how to change the date format in the salesforce account as well.
The Date and time in salesforce are controlled using Locale settings. All countries follow the different formats of date for example:
- United States of America (USA) – Month Day Year (January 1, 2022)
- Countries like China, Japan, Korea, and Iran – Year Month Day
- The majority of the countries in the world follow – Month Day Year
Adding hyphen (-), dots(.), and slash (/) also varies from country to country.
Salesforce does not support the creation of date format from the user’s end. Also, it follows 12 hours clock format for the time. One can not set the time format to 24 hours as of now.
Time is automatically selected based upon the selected time zone in salesforce. Suppose the current time in Austin, Texas, USA is 7:30 AM now then after changing the time zone to Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany the time will be changed to 2:50 PM.
Now let’s understand,
- How to change my time in salesforce
- How to change other user’s time in salesforce
We assume that you are a system administrator with permission to make changes in the profile.
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How to change my time in Salesforce
If you want to change the time of your salesforce account from one region to another then you can do that by following steps:
Step 1: On the dashboard of salesforce click on the View Profile icon at the top right corner of the salesforce dashboard and from there click on the settings.
Step 2: Under the My Personal Information click on the Language & Time Zone, Select the time zone from the drop-down, and click on the save button. The time and date of your salesforce account will be changed.
- Time Zone: Select the time zone from the drop-down. The time will change as per the selected time zone.
- Locale: The language of the date will be changed
- Language: The language of the entire page will be changed
- Email Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8)
With this, we have learned how to change my time in salesforce from the salesforce dashboard.
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How to change time for other users in Salesforce
Previously we have learned how to change my time in salesforce. Here, we will learn how to change the time for other users in salesforce.
Here are the following steps to change the time for other users in salesforce:
Step 1: On the dashboard of salesforce click on the Gear icon present in the top right corner of the browser.
Step 2: Click on Service Setup and from the Quick Find search for ADMINISTRATION.
Step 3: Click on ADMINISTRATION -> Users -> Users. There you will see the list of all the users.
Step 4: Click on the Edit button for the user whose time you wish to change.
Step 5: Scroll down until you see Local Settings. From there you can change the time zone, Locale, and Language for other users.
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How to change calendar time in salesforce
In this section, we will learn how to change calendar time in salesforce. Salesforce allows changing the date and time based on the region. As if now it is not possible to set the customized date in salesforce.
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Currently, the feature to display your current working hours from a range of dates is not possible as of now. The purpose of the calendar view is to block your calendar for off business hours from recurring meetings.
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How to change the time option in salesforce
Salesforce does not allow to set the custom timings rather it allows changing the time option based upon the region. One can set the time zone as per their preference and the time will be adjusted accordingly.
To change the time option in salesforce follow these steps:
Step 1: On the salesforce, dashboard click on the View Profile option and then click on the settings.
Step 2: Under My Personal Information click on the Language & Time Zone .
Step 3: Now on the screen, you will see Time zone, locale, language, and Email Encoding. Change the time zone of choice to change time in salesforce.
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How to change date and time in salesforce
Date and Time in salesforce can be changed by altering the time zone in salesforce. Salesforce does not allow us to put in the custom date and time.
Based upon the selected region, the date and time are automatically selected in the salesforce. Follow the steps shared in the first section of this tutorial to change the date and time in salesforce.
Conclusion
This tutorial was about how to change the timezone in salesforce and we have covered various ways to change the timezone. Other than that we have also learned that salesforce allows changing time only through timezone.
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In this salesforce tutorial, we have learned how to change the timezone in salesforce. Also, we have covered these topics:
- How to change timezone in salesforce
- How to change timezone in the apex
- How to change time format in Salesforce
- How to change my time in Salesforce
- How to change others time in salesforce
- How to change calendar time in salesforce
- How to change time option in salesforce
- How to change date and time in salesforce
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