Time zone settings in the SnapLogic Platform

The SnapLogic Platform components, such as the UI, Snaps, and Snaplexes, interact with third-party applications and technologies. Interactions can occur between components in different time zones, making time zone settings an important consideration. The following table describes the supported time zones for SnapLogic components and explains whether they are configurable.

Snaplogic component Supported Time zone User configurable? Notes
UI (Control plane)
  • Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), controlled by the browser, which defaults to local time for the host machine.
  • The downloaded information contains timestamps in UTC.
 No For Chrome, you can install an extension to change the time zone: Change Timezone for Google Chrome™ - Chrome Web Store.
Snaps/Pipelines Default UTC Yes

Configurability depends on whether a Snap supports date/time expressions. Refer to documentation for the specific Snap for more information.

Time zone setting example: if you configure the timestamp of a Snaps to a local time zone, only the timestamp of the data in the pipeline is affected. Hence, the timestamp information of the pipeline activity on the Dashboard would still be dependent on the time zone settings of the host OS.

For details about supported time zone configuration for specific 3rd party applications, refer to Database Date Types.
Cloudplex UTC No None
Groundplex User defined Yes Since a Groundplex is on-premises, this setting depends on the host OS time zone setting.
Public API UTC No You can only view timestamp information via the Activity API.
Tasks User defined Yes Since scheduled tasks have a scheduled time to execute, a drop-down menu allows you to choose the time zone for the scheduled time of task execution.
Error Logs UTC No None
User Notifications Local No This time zone is dependent on host OS time settings. The browser uses the host OS time zone to convert to the user's local time zone.