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Use time zone-agnostic fields in project planning

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Users by admins, makers, or analysts May 16, 2025 Mar 2026

Business value

When you create a project, the time zone comes from the time zone in the work hour template you apply. When you create a task, the start time, end time, and hours per day follow the working hours of the project. This time zone component can make it hard to enforce extensibility scenarios for contracts. The time zone component causes problems because it prevents the definition of time boundaries from crossing due to differences in time zones.

Feature details

In Dynamics 365 Project Operations, the start and end dates for projects and project tasks include extra fields that don't rely on specific time zones. You add these fields to both the project and project task entities. This setup supports integration and extensibility for scenarios where the time zone part of the start and end fields isn't important. It also helps improve accounting alignment.

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Additional resources

Use time zone independent date fields (docs)