Introduction

This is a short blog post, about a long standing issue that some enterprises has been complaining about on there corporate Windows devices, where the end user are standard user as Microsoft recommends.
Issue:

  • The inability for standard users to change the time zone on Windows presents several significant issues, impacting productivity, user experience, and application functionality.

This has been a pain point for IT admins that have been deploying enterprise devices to the end user with Autopilot, where the device often ends up in PST time zone.
For end user that are traveling between time zones for work, they are seeing the calendar, getting team meeting notifications in the home time zones, etc.

Solution:

This is going to change moving forward:

With the latest update to Windows 11 24H2 – February 11, 2025—KB5051987 (OS Build 26100.3194)
this update includes improvements that was part of the 2501 D KB5050094 (released January 28, 2025)
You are able to change the time zones as a standard user on Windows.

This video show how a standard user can change time zone away from PST

Read more about the latest cumulative updates here :
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/february-11-2025-kb5051987-os-build-26100-3194-63fb007d-3f52-4b47-85ea-28414a24be2d