Time Zone Configuration (SAP Library - Time Zones (CA-GTF-TIM))

Time Zone Configuration

Purpose

This process explains how to set up and activate the Time Zone function in the SAP System.

Prerequisites

You can use individual Customizing activities to make the following settings:

Set up the time zone in which the system is located
Define a default time zone for users (if no time zone is set in the user profile)

To configure your system for the time zone function in Customizing, choose General Settings ® Time Zones.

Process Flow

Maintain the system settings in the client. Use the Maintain Time Zones activity if you want to check the time zone settings or if the time zone you need does not exist. You activate the time zone function settings by selecting the Flag Time Zones enabled field in the Customizing table created for that purpose.

Basis Customizing includes defining time zones, their daylight savings rules, and their offsets from Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) and activating the time zone function. If you activate the time zone function, the system will display local dates and times in date proposals and validations.

Note

Much of the required basis Customizing is already configured in your system; however, you can change it or add to it as required.

Use the Maintain Geographical Assignments activity to check the assignment of time zones to geographical areas.

Example

Groups of users in a region or general geographical area should use their organization's (company code's) time zone, even if it is not exactly the same time zone as their local time zone. For example, if all systems in Asia are using the same local time zone, the result is that the system will exhibit the same behavior, such as proposing the same posting date.

The SAP system uses these assignments to determine the objects' time zones when converting between objects' local times and time stamps.

If a user and the system are in different time zones, specify the user's time zone in the user profile. (If the user and system are in the same time zone, you can skip this step.)

Providing this time zone information in the profile allows users to see proposed dates and validations in terms of his or her local time.

After you log on again, check the system status to ensure that the Time Zone function is working properly.