Dates and Times Displayed in Policy Designer

The date format and time zone that are displayed on the Policy Designer interface may differ from other user or system settings that you have configured. This topic describes the specific differences you may see.

Policy Designer Date Format

Certain dates and times in the Policy Designer interface are displayed and saved in the standard ISO date format YYYY-MM-DD HH: mm: ss, where the time values use a 24-hour time format. This applies to the dates and times that are:

Written into the body of email messages.
Written into the Description field of Policy Recommendation and Policy Event records that are generated by policies.
Included in the validation and execution result text for the Return Value node.

In these areas, the standard ISO date format is used regardless of any global date format settings or operating system settings.

Policy Time Zone

For each policy, you can specify the time zone in which the Policy Designer interface displays dates and times. For example, the time zone setting determines the dates and times that are:

Displayed in the Execution History pane.
Displayed in validation messages.
Written into the body of email messages.
Written into the Description field of Policy Recommendation and Policy Event records that are generated by policies.
Evaluated when you specify a relative date and time.

The time zone that you specify for a policy will be used irrespective of any other user or system time zone settings.