calendarData/WorkingHours/TimeZone Element

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01/20/2015

Holds the user’s local time zone information.

    <TimeZone>
      <Bias>480</Bias>
      <DaylightTime>...</DaylightTime>
      <StandardTime>...</StandardTime>
    </TimeZone>

SerializableTimeZone

Attributes and Elements

The following sections describe attributes, child elements, and parent elements.

Attributes

None

Child Elements

Element	Occurrence	Description
Bias	1	Offset in minutes between the local time zone and Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
DayLightTime	1	The daylight time of a given time zone.
StandardTime	1	The standard time of a given time zone.

Parent Elements

Element	Description
WorkingHours	The working-hours specification obtained from the underlying Exchange Server.

Text Value

None

Example

The following XML code snippet shows the US Pacific time zone information in a working-hours specification:

    <TimeZone>
      <Bias>480</Bias>
      <StandardTime>
        <Bias>0</Bias>
        <Time>02:00:00</Time>
        <DayOrder>1</DayOrder>
        <Month>11</Month>
        <DayOfWeek>Sunday</DayOfWeek>
      </StandardTime>
      <DaylightTime>
        <Bias>60</Bias>
        <Time>02:00:00</Time>
        <DayOrder>2</DayOrder>
        <Month>3</Month>
        <DayOfWeek>Sunday</DayOfWeek>
      </DaylightTime>
    </TimeZone>

The US Pacific time zone is 8 hour behind UTC (Bias of 480) containing the standard and daylight times. The standard time is in the same time zone of the user’s local time zone (with zero Bias) and begins at 2 AM on the first Sunday of November. The daylight time is in the time zone one hour the local time zone (with Bias of 60) and begins at 2AM on the second Sunday of March.

Element Information

Namespace	https://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types
Schema Name	calendarData
Validation File	calendarData.xsd, calendardatatypes.xsd
Can be Empty	False

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