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Intune - allow users to change time

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We've already enabled location services by configuration to let time automatically sync

But we're unable to let users manually change time zones if needed (unusual request by some of our users). At first we thought this was related to location services, although it looks like it's because standard users are unable to change those settings at all normally.

We're looking for an Intune configuration to let standard users modify their time zone / settings.

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@PKarma Thanks for your explain.

For this issue, I have checked on unenrolled windows devices. If we are not an admin account, we can't see this setting "Set Time zone automatically". So, it seems related to windows itself, not intune.

At the same time, I have done a lot of research. I find this setting "Set Time zone automatically" is controlled by the following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\tzautoupdate\Start
To turn off "Set Time zone automatically" The DWORD value should be 4.

So, it is suggested to try to write a PowerShell script to change the registry key and deploy it to the device via intune.

Thanks for understanding and have a nice day.

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@PKarma I am currently standing by for further update from you and would like to know how things are going. If you have any questions or concerns on the recent information I've provided you, please don't hesitate to let me know.

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that did the trick, thank you!

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@PKarma You're welcome. If you have any issue in the future, welcome to post in our Q&A.

Thanks and have a nice day. : )

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Jason-MSFT answered PKarma commented

Why would users need to change the time on a system? Also, what does setting the time have to do with location services?

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was a misunderstanding on my part since i'm always an administrator on machines. From my understanding now, Standard Users are unable to modify date/time settings (we figured this was related to us turning on location services, we're new into our intune deployment and autopilot/standard user configurations)

We're looking for a configuration that would allow standard users to change date/time/location settings

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Same question: why do users need to change the time or date on a system?

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Since setting up autopilot + standard users, we initially did not have time syncing properly because location services were not on. We enabled location services through configuration profiles, and timezone is pulling automatically.

But we have some users who travel while working do not want their timezones / time to automatically change and to stay set to the main offices timezone.

Unless there's another configuration enforcing it that we're missing, these users are unable to turn off automatic timezone/time as standard autopilot users.

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LuDaiMSFT-0289 answered PKarma commented

@PKarma Thanks for posting in our Q&A. From your description, I know that you want to use the same time even the users are in different timezones. If there is anything misunderstanding, feel free to let us know.

For this issue, I have done some research. I find that the following link provides a method to configure TimeZone via intune:
https://deploywindows.com/2019/08/12/timezone-config-with-intune/
Note: Non-Microsoft link, just for the reference.

Hope it will help.


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Hi @LuDaiMSFT-0289 . Our situation is actually a bit different. While we could use that method to manually set timezones on specific devices, we're hoping to let Standard Users turn off the "Set Time Zone Automatically" switch in date and time and change their time zones themselves if they need to (a large portion of our workers travel a lot and some have preference to set the timezone most their clients are in)

It does not seem like that switch to disable automatic time zones is available on a standard user though from what we're seeing, and they're unable to change time zones themselves (only someone signing in as an admin account can)

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