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Setting the Preferred Time Zone for Users

If you have users in time zones that are different from the zone for Oracle BI Presentation Services, then you can specify the time stamps that those users see in Oracle Business Intelligence. For example, suppose the server is located in the Pacific time zone in the United States. You can specify that users on the east coast of the United States see time stamps displayed in Eastern Standard Time.

If you make no time zone settings and if a user does not specify a preferred time zone using the My Account screen in Answers, then that user sees time displayed according to the local time zone for Oracle BI Presentation Services.

For information on how users specify their preferred time zones, see the Oracle Business Intelligence Answers, Delivers, and Interactive Dashboards User Guide.

This section contains the following topics on preferred time zones:

• Where Time Zones Are Used
• Setting Time Zones
• Precedence Order for Time Zones
• Where Time Zone Specifications Are Stored
• Description of Time Zone Settings
• Example: Configuration File Settings for Specifying the Time Zone