ejabberd - Comments for "How to set user&amp;#039;s timezone?" https://www.ejabberd.im/node/24949 en ejabberd does not require https://www.ejabberd.im/node/24949#comment-65762 <p>ejabberd does not require such "timezone" concept. It uses UTC time, and provides timestamps in UTC, as described in<br /> <noindex><a href="http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0082.html" title="http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0082.html" rel="nofollow" >http://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0082.html</a></noindex></p> <p>For example, when a user receives an old message, ejabberd adds a Delay element providing the timestamp in UTC format:</p> <pre> &lt;message from='user3@localhost/tka1' to='user1@localhost' id='89:188' xml:lang='es' type='chat'&gt; &lt;body&gt;mensaje1&lt;/body&gt; &lt;delay from='localhost' stamp='2015-06-16T22:40:59.988Z' xmlns='urn:xmpp:delay'&gt;Offline Storage&lt;/delay&gt; &lt;/message&gt; </pre> Tue, 16 Jun 2015 22:45:57 +0000 badlop comment 65762 at https://www.ejabberd.im