Timezone

Specifies the timezone to be used for the device. Users can override the specified timezone for the current session. However, on logout it is set back to the specified timezone. If an invalid value is provided, the policy is still activated using "GMT" instead. If an empty string is provided, the policy is ignored.

If this policy is not used, the currently active timezone will remain in use however users can change the timezone and the change is persistent. Thus a change by one user affects the login-screen and all other users.

New devices start out with the timezone set to "US/Pacific".

The format of the value follows the names of timezones in the "IANA Time Zone Database" (see "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database"). In particular, most timezones can be referred to by "continent/large_city" or "ocean/large_city".

Setting this policy completely disables automatic timezone resolve by device location. It also overrides SystemTimezoneAutomaticDetection policy.

Supported on: SUPPORTED_WIN7

Timezone

Registry HiveHKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry PathSoftware\Policies\Google\ChromeOS
Value NameSystemTimezone
Value TypeREG_SZ
Default Value

chromeos.admx

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