Your course's time zone determines the time-and-date stamps on your submissions and Gradebook reports.
As an example, assume that you are working in Central time and that the course is in Central time. If you submit a writing exercise at 10:00 p.m. on September 15, the MyLab time stamps the submission as 10:00 p.m.
For another example, again assume that you submitted a writing exercise to your instructor at 10:00 p.m. on September 15. But this time you are working in Eastern time and the course is in Central time. Eastern time is one hour ahead of Central time. So, a 10:00 p.m. submission in Eastern time will be time stamped as a 9:00 p.m. submission in a course using Central time.
Depending on the time zones, a different time stamp can also cause a different date stamp. For example, assume that the course is in Central time and that you submit a writing exercise at 11:00 p.m. on September 15 in Pacific time. In this case, Central time is two hours ahead of Pacific time. This means that the course's date-and-time stamp will be 1:00 a.m. on September 16.
The MyLab displays the course's time zone and its Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) offset 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.
Note: If you are working on your own rather than in an instructor's course, the time zone is always in Eastern Time (America/New York).
If you need to convert 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