## Timezone Settings Notes and Recommendations

For your Organization _Timezone_ setting, you can use the drop-down list to select a timezone using formats that are valid under Release 2021c of the tz database (tzdata). For example:

- **UTC**.  - **Calendars**. Depending on your browser and its settings, this timezone setting will typically resolve to show **UTC** for calendars used in the Console.
- **Regional**. By region using a regional timezone by tz database name. For example, **Europe/Berlin**. If you want to lookup tz regional timezones, they are listed in this [Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones).  - **Calendars**. Depending on your browser and its settings, regional timezone settings will typically resolve to show the equivalent **GMT** timezone for calendars used in the Console. For example, **Europe/Berlin** will show as **GMT+1** for calendars.
- **Special Area**. Using the “special area” **Etc** prefix format, such as **Etc - GMT-1**. Note that this format entails a **+/-** sign reversal with respect to GMT, so the **Etc - GMT-1** timezone setting is equivalent to **GMT+1**. Please see the [Area section](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#Area) entry of the Wikipedia tz database article for more details on this format.  - **Calendars**. Depending on your browser and its settings, special area timezone settings will typically resolve to show the equivalent **GMT** timezone for calendars used in the Console.

**Use Regional Timezone Settings!** We strongly recommend that you use the regional timezone settings when defining your Organization’s Timezone.