# Timezone api meetings **URL:** \ **Category:** API and Webhooks\ **Created:** [March 19, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/timezone-api-meetings/9027 "2020-03-19T19:10:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![comercial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@comercial](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/comercial)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 7:10pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/timezone-api-meetings/9027/1 "2020-03-19T19:10:33Z")
I’m using the meeting api to do a schedule. The problem is that i sending “start\_time”: “2020-03-19T17:01:00Z”, “timezone”: “America/Sao\_Paulo”, the response is “start\_time”: “2020-03-19T17:01:00Z”, “timezone”: “America/Sao\_Paulo”, but when i access app zoom the time is 2020-03-19 14:00 Endpoint is /users/{userId}/meetings ---
**Author:** ![comercial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@comercial](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/comercial)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/timezone-api-meetings/9027/3 "2020-03-19T20:14:59Z")
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**Author:** ![comercial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@comercial](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/comercial)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 8:15pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/timezone-api-meetings/9027/4 "2020-03-19T20:15:31Z")
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**Author:** ![tommy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/tommy/32/72769_2.png) [@tommy](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/tommy)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 10:34pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/timezone-api-meetings/9027/5 "2020-03-19T22:34:50Z")
Hey @comercial, thanks for posting and using Zoom! When setting the `timezone` property, do not include the `Z` in the `start_time`. ![Screen Shot 2020-03-19 at 4.34.04 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/2X/2/2b4a47f043271a251b57ec7f0296692cf7ed1f29.png) [https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/meetings/meetingcreate](https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/api-reference/zoom-api/meetings/meetingcreate) Try this and let me know if it works: ```json "start_time": "2020-03-19T17:01:00", "timezone": "America/Sao_Paulo", ``` Thanks, Tommy ---
**Author:** ![comercial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@comercial](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/comercial)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 1:25pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/timezone-api-meetings/9027/6 "2020-03-20T13:25:57Z")
Hey @tommy, the problem change, follow the screenshot: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/zoomdeveloper/original/2X/b/b2f6fee6e07cdf1890a70e3e22835c9941e8ae29.png) sorry my english isn’t so good. ---
**Author:** ![tommy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/tommy/32/72769_2.png) [@tommy](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/tommy)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 8:53pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/timezone-api-meetings/9027/7 "2020-03-20T20:53:38Z")
Hey @comercial, The start\_time in the response is always in GMT time, which is 3 hours ahead of Sao Paulo time. Typically [all server times are based on GMT](https://www.rexconsulting.net/tip-timezones-always-set-your-servers-to-gmt-html/), so then you can convert the GMT time to the local timezone on the client browser / device. Thanks, Tommy ---
**Author:** ![Paediko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Paediko](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Paediko)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 11:47am UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/timezone-api-meetings/9027/8 "2021-01-20T11:47:40Z")
@tommy why does it always use GMT in responses but includes the timezone that was sent in the request? This is totally confusing, IMHO timezone and the timestamp in one object should always match! You would normally use the timezone property as a baseline for converting the timestamp to local time. ---
**Author:** ![will.zoom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/will.zoom/32/14417_2.png) [@will.zoom](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/will.zoom)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2021, 8:24pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/timezone-api-meetings/9027/9 "2021-01-20T20:24:27Z")
Thanks for the feedback, @Paediko. While I believe the intention is that the start\_time is intended to be converted to local time on the frontend, I can understand how including the timezone in the response along with GMT can be a bit confusing—I’ll be happy to share this. Thanks, Will