Specify a Preference for the Time Zone

Your time zone preference is used when SAS Web Report Studio performs an action that involves time. For example, when you save a new report, your preference is used to assign the date and time of its creation. Your preference is also used when a header or footer includes the dynamic text option called Date the data was last refreshed. The displayed refresh date and time are based on your preference.

To specify a default time zone, complete these steps:

Click Preferences in the right corner of the user interface to open the Preferences dialog box.
On the Time Zone tab, complete these steps:
1. If the zone that you want to use is not in the Time zone drop-down list, then select the Choose from all possible time zones check box.
2. From the Time zone drop-down list, select the time zone that you want to use. For example, you might select (GMT–8:00) Pacific Standard Time.
3. From the Zone ID drop-down list, select one of the IDs that are available for the time zone that you specified. Each time zone has a list of associated IDs. Most of the zone IDs are in the form Area/Location, where Area is a continent, a country, or an ocean and Location is a major population area within the specific location. For example, if you select (GMT–10:00) Hawaii Standard Time as the time zone, then you might select (GMT–10:00) Pacific/Honolulu as the zone ID. Other zone IDs in the (GMT–10:00) Hawaii Standard Time zone include (GMT–10:00) Pacific/Johnson, (GMT–10:00) System/VHST10, and (GMT–10:00) US/Hawaii.
Click OK.

Your preferences are used the next time SAS Web Report Studio performs an action that involves time.

Note: Changing the time zone does not affect reports that you manually refresh.

In the following display, (GMT+08:00) Western Standard Time (Australia) is selected for the Time zone and the Zone ID drop-down list shows (GMT+08:00) Antarctica/Casey. The two other available zone IDs are (GMT+08:00) Australia/Perth and (GMT+08:00) Australia/West.

Time Zone Tab with Preferences Specified