Issue with getting time zone for users in Graph API

Question

Hi! I am the founder of teamtimezone.com. We want to support Microsoft Teams because some users asked us to support MS Teams since they may be planning to move from Slack to MS Teams and would like to continue using our application.

Our team started to work on that but we found a blocker that does not allow us to successfully port the application. It seems that, at the moment, there is not a reliable way to access a user's time zone.

We have verified the options to get this time zone of a given user and see that there is an option in graph API - But, We see that this is not giving any value in our prod tenant https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/regionalandlanguagesettings-get?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=http#code-try-1

We would like to know when this endpoint will be production-ready so we can successfully port the app :)

Alternatively, please let us know if you know of any other ways to fetch the time zone of a given user.

With gratitude,

Answer 1

Hi @Lluis Fons ,

Currently regionalandlanguagesettings is in /beta and APIs under the /beta version in Microsoft Graph are subject to change. Use of these APIs in production applications is not supported.

As per my test PUT or PATCH /settings/regionalAndLanguageSettings and then GET /settings/regionalAndLanguageSettings works fine, here is my test response.

Note: Using GET without PUT or PATCH will return empty responses!!

Alternatively, consider GET /users/{id|userPrincipalName}/mailboxSettings refer Get user mailbox settings.

Which will return the timeZone of users mailbox.

Hope this helps.

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