[SOLVED] MS teams displays the wrong time (timezone)

Question

Ive been having this issue since i started using teams. The correct timezone for me is CEST (Central European Summer Time). For some reason, Teams always displays the wrong time although in my MS Account the timezone and language settings are correct. Also, for people that work in the same office, Teams shows me that they apparently are in the same timezone..???? How can i resolve this?

OS: MacOS Ventura 13.4

Teams Version 1.6.00.11156.

Thanks!

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Solution in comments

Answer 1

Hello,

I had the same issue and tried just about everything, including the troubleshooting steps provided here. I discovered a solution that worked for me.

1. Go to Outlook website.
2. Click the settings gear icon on the top right corner.
3. Go to "General" in the left pane and then ensure you are viewing "Language and time".
4. Click "Change" under "Time zone".
5. In the newly-opened pane, under "Time zones", there should be a message saying your "meeting time" is set to a different time zone. Click "Yes, update" button to reconcile the time zones.
6. Restart Teams.

Answer 2

I did the same, I changed the timezone to Sydney in Teams app and online, Outlook app and online. I even reached out to my admin and saw the timezone and location set to Sydney, Australia. We even checked in Azure and I restarted Teams, Outlook and the laptop several times now and my timezone on Teams STILL shows up as 18h ahead.

I am on macbook and the timezone is set to Automatically based on my location and I even changed that and set manually to Sydney, Australia even then it didnt work and STILL shows as 18h ahead.

We even tried and saved a different timezone (say Canada) and saved and restarted etc and then changed it back to Sydney, Australia and saved and restarted and its STILL showing 18h ahead.

Now in the Teams I have seen the timezone option and the option to set the work hours, even there its set to UTC+10 hours Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney but the Teams STILL shows 18h ahead.

At this point I am so frustrated and whenever any of my team members setup a meeting theyre always shown a warning that its out of my working hours etc. I think Teams and in general Microsoft products are utter ****. Even my admin is pulling his hair out why its like that and its not only me but several other people facing this issue.

This post should not be marked as SOLVED because its NOT solved.

Answer 3

I tried all the steps but it didn't work.

Answer 4

UPDATE

Hi,

not sure if this is helpful for you but i got it fixed by doing the following:

1. Logged in to OutlookWeb with the Account that displayed the wrong time
2. Clicked on the Settings on the Top right corner -> "View all Outlook settings"
3. "General" -> "Language and Time" -> Click the small Change link on the end of "Time zone" Set to the correct Timezone and change differing work ours

Hopefully this will help you too.

Answer 5

Hi Everyone:

The instructions updated Teams on Web but did not update the desktop app even after restarting Teams. Any other suggestions?

Thanks, Greg.