Changing Time Zones in PennO365

  • Faculty & Staff

You may need to change time zones in PennO365. For example, if you're traveling overseas and see a proposed meeting in the PennO365 Calendar, you can change the time zone to Eastern Time to see when the meeting will occur in Philadelphia. Then you can change back to your local time zone. You can change time zones in PennO365 whenever you wish.

If you've never set up a time zone in OWA, it will default to "(UTC) Monrovia, Reykjavik", which is Coordinated Universal Time (also known as Greenwich Mean Time).

If you're using the Outlook desktop client, consult Microsoft's instructions, "Add, remove, or change time zones - Outlook".

Below are instructions for how to change time zones in OWA, the online PennO365 webmail.

1. Log in

Go to OWA, the PennO365 webmail and log in.

2. Go to Settings

Click on the gear icon for Settings in the upper right corner of the screen. (It's circled in red in the image below.)

[Choose the Settings gear icon]

3. Go to Office 365

Under "Your app settings", choose "Office 365" (circled in the image below).

[Choose Office 365]

 4. Go to "Language and time zone"

When the Settings area opens up, click on "Language and time zone" (circled in the image below).

[Choose language and time zone]

5. Choose new time zone

Pull down the "Current time zone" menu and chose the time zone you want to use.

[Choose a new time zone]

6. Save

Click the blue "Save" button to save your work. Changing the time zone in OWA will not change it elsewhere.