Timezone
Set the timezone used to display dates and times in your account.
Overview
Your account stores a timezone so dates and times can be shown in your local time. When you first sign in, the app detects your timezone from your browser and saves it automatically — you don't have to do anything to get started.
Your timezone only affects how times are displayed to you. It doesn't change anyone else's view or your organization's settings.
How Your Timezone Is Set
Automatic detection. The first time you open the app while signed in, your browser's timezone is detected and saved to your profile — but only when you don't already have one set.
Manual selection. You can change it at any time from your account settings. Your own choice always takes priority over automatic detection.
Changing Your Timezone
Click the current value to open the picker, then search for and select your timezone. Each entry shows its current GMT offset — for example, America/Sao_Paulo (GMT-3).
Your selected timezone is remembered across sessions and devices.
Dates and Numbers
Everywhere the app shows a date or a time — lists, record pages, charts, the audit log and your notifications — it is shown in your timezone.
Two settings decide how that date reaches you, and they do different jobs. Your timezone decides which moment you are looking at. Your language decides what shape it takes on screen: month names, the order of the day and the month, the 12- or 24-hour clock, and the decimal and grouping separators.
The same instant, and the same numbers, under each language:
| Value | English | Português (Brasil) |
|---|---|---|
| Date | September 1, 2026 | 1 de setembro de 2026 |
| Date and time | Sep 1, 2026, 2:54 PM | 1 de set. de 2026, 14:54 |
| Amount | $1,234.50 | US$ 1.234,50 |
| Rate | 32.4% | 32,4% |
| Large number | 4.5K | 4,5 mil |
The two settings are independent. Move your timezone from UTC to America/Sao_Paulo and 2:54 PM becomes 11:54 AM — the same wording, an earlier moment. Switch your language to Portuguese instead and the moment does not move at all: it is written 14:54.
A date with no time of day — a deal's expected close date, for example — is the day that was picked, and does not shift with your timezone. "Closes on the 30th" reads as the 30th everywhere.
Filtering by date
A list's date filter — Today, This week, This month and Older — draws its boundaries in your timezone, the same one the dates in that list are shown in. You will find it as Date on your notifications and on the activity log; platform administrators get the same filter as Created on the admin Users and Organizations tables. Today means your today: it starts at midnight where you are, not where the server is.
Take a record created at 2026-09-01T02:30:00Z. In America/Sao_Paulo (GMT-3) it shows as Aug 31, 2026, 11:30 PM, and Today on September 1 does not match it — the date you can read on screen and the filter agree. A colleague in Asia/Tokyo (GMT+9) sees the very same record as Sep 1, 2026, 11:30 AM, and for them it is under Today.
So two people in different timezones looking at the same list can see different records under Today. That is correct, not a bug: each is looking at their own day. This week and This month follow the same rule, starting at midnight on the first day of the week or month in your timezone.
The filter and the displayed date never disagree. If a row reads September 1, it is in Today for exactly as long as September 1 is today for you.
Over the REST API this works differently: it has no reader, so its date range filters are cut in UTC. See Data Formats.
Currency belongs to the record, not to the reader
The currency of an amount is a property of the record, not of who is looking at it. Switching your language never converts money. A deal worth $1,234.50 is worth exactly that in both languages; only the separators and the position of the symbol change, which is why the same amount reads $1,234.50 in English and US$ 1.234,50 in Portuguese.
Emails
Emails are formatted when they are sent, in the language and timezone saved on the recipient's profile. Two people in the same organization can receive the same billing notice dated in their own time.
Before you sign in
Your timezone lives on your profile, so it can only be applied once the app knows who you are. Screens reachable while signed out — the sign-in and password pages among them — show times in UTC, and so does an account with no valid timezone stored. The fallback is always UTC and never the server's own timezone, so a time never depends on which machine happened to render the page.
None of this applies to the REST API, which is written for programs rather than readers: /api/v1 returns ISO 8601 timestamps in UTC and raw numbers, whatever your language and timezone are. See Authentication.