Multiple timezones

General Help
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Hi,

I’m considering moving from a Mitel system to FreePBX so I’m putting things together to make sure that I can match the configuration I have on the Mitel, one issue is that I have 2 sites with one server, local phones get the correct time for my timezone and remote phones get the correct time for their time zone because I have programmed multiple timezones and I direct each group to the time zone that it belongs to. the question is whether its possible to create multiple time zones for local and remote phones on FreePBX?

Thanks

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Yes with IP Phones you can set what time zone the phone uses. No issues their at all.

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How would you do that ? I could not find a way to create multiple time zones on the freePBX ?

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you dont create time zones in the PBX. When you configure the phones in EPM you pick per template what time zone the phones will use.

5

Explain in detail what do you want to do.

For the phones to have the right time and date, you should configure what is their ntp server. This is a setting on the phones and not in FreePBX, if you are provisioning the devices then Tony described what you have to do.

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Thank you tonyclewis,

That answers my question, ill setup the time on the phones and ill create multiple time group to handel the earlier closing time for the remote site.

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For closing times and other functions of the PBX, I think most time related functions also allow timezone definitions. So if you have two timezone, your would create two time conditions for 9-5pm (for example), and specify each with a different timezone… or one time condition would be for 9-5 and the other 8-4, no TZ required.

For time display on the phones, this is, as mentioned, a phone related thing which can be configured manually on the phone, or via templates in the provisioning module.