Set the farm time zone

How to do it

1. Open «Configuration».
2. Pick «Time zone» - the zone in use now is shown next to the item name.
3. Find your zone: type a city or a country into «Search zones by name», then pick a line from the list.
4. Save.

When it is available

• Available to the farm administrator ONLY: the zone belongs to the whole farm, not to one person.

Important

• The setting changes HOW time is shown and changes nothing in the data itself: measurements and events are stored unchanged.
• The zone also decides which day counts as today when you enter dates. That matters more than it seems: before this setting the day was taken by UTC, and on a farm in Thailand today's date could not be picked at all before seven in the morning - the calendar treated it as the future.
• Pick a zone, not an offset in hours. Where daylight saving time exists, the offset changes twice a year, and a record made in spring would read wrongly in autumn. The current offset is shown next to the zone name, for example Asia/Bangkok (UTC+7).
• The zone is shared by all farm members. This is deliberate: otherwise two people discussing the same measurement would name different times.

Related

• The unit system is a neighbouring setting of the same farm profile (#390).
• The farm location is set separately (#388) and does not affect the time zone: the zone is chosen by hand.

If you see a message

• «Unknown time zone» - the chosen time zone was not recognised. Pick it from the list instead of typing it in.