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Your course's time zone

Your course's time zone determines:

When student submissions for assignments are late
The date-and-time stamps in Gradebook reports
The time at which the course is archived

As an example, if your course uses the Central time zone and you create an assignment that is due on September 15, the default deadline for that assignment is 11:59 p.m. Central time on September 15. Any assignments that are not submitted by that time are considered to be late. This also means that any students who are outside the Central time zone must submit the assignment in Central time. For example:

A student in the Pacific time zone must submit the assignment by 9:59 p.m. Pacific time on September 15.
A student in the Eastern time zone must submit the assignment by 12:59 a.m. Eastern time on September 16.

For any student who does not submit the assignment by 11:59 p.m. Central time, regardless of the student's time zone, the MyLab flags the submission as late.

As far as archiving a course is concerned, the MyLab automatically archives a course at 11:59 p.m. in the course's time zone on the course's end date. (See My Archived Courses for more information.)

You select a time zone when you create the course, and you can edit the course details to change the time zone. The MyLab displays the course's time zone and its Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) offset to both you and your students on all pages that display a time-and-date stamp.

You don't need to track whether you are in Standard or Daylight Savings Time. The MyLab calculates these times and offsets as needed. For example, a course using Central time would display (GMT –6:00) Central Time during Standard Time. In Daylight Savings Time, the course would display (GMT –5:00) Central Time.

If you are interested in converting times across time zones, there are several time-zone conversion websites that you can find using your preferred search engine. Two of the more popular websites are:

The World Clock – Time Zone Converter: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html

Time Zone Converter – Time & Time Zone Conversion: http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc