Kontainer lets you set your own time zone from your personal profile. This controls how dates and times are displayed to you throughout the platform, so you see them in your local time rather than a fixed system time.

What time zones do in Kontainer

Time zone is a personal setting. Each user chooses their own, alongside their preferred language and region, from their profile settings.

Where to set your time zone

  1. Click your profile icon in the top right corner of Kontainer.
  2. Select Edit profile.
  3. Find the Time zone field, next to Language and Region.
  4. Select your time zone from the drop-down list.
  5. Click Save at the bottom of the page.

Admins can set a company-wide default

Administrators can also set a default time zone for the entire Kontainer. This default acts as a fallback: it is only used for users who have not set a personal time zone of their own. Anyone who does set their own time zone under Edit profile will see dates and times in that time zone instead.

There is also a separate switch, Automatically adjust user time zones, that lets an admin update users' time zones silently in the background. When this is enabled, a user's time zone can be changed for them without any active confirmation from that user.

What it's used for

Once set, your time zone is used to show dates and times in your own local time wherever Kontainer displays one, including:

  • Timestamps on files, folders and product records
  • Activity and history logs
  • Expiration dates, such as when a user account is set to expire
  • Scheduled actions and notifications

This means that if you and a colleague work from different regions, you can each see the same event's date and time converted correctly to your own local time, without doing any manual conversion.

Time zone sits next to two other personal preferences on the same Edit profile page:

  • Language – the language Kontainer's interface is displayed in for you.
  • Region – your regional formatting preferences.

These are all personal to your own user account. Changing them does not affect what other users in your Kontainer see, unless an admin has set a company-wide default and you haven't chosen a personal time zone yourself.

That's about it. Let us know in case of questions.