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title: Time zone for email notifications
description: A system property controls the time zone that the instance uses for the date and time stamp of a message.
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# Time zone for email notifications

A system property controls the time zone that the instance uses for the date and time stamp of a message.

The date and time stamp of a notification uses the system time zone, not the time zone of any recipient. The email property `glide.email.append.timezone` controls whether to append the time zone. If true, the system time zone of the instance is appended to any Date/Time fields in outbound email messages \(for example, 2018-07-02 04:01:14 PST\).

**Parent Topic:**[Create an email notification](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/platform-administration/t_CreateANotification.md)