How do time zones impact communication in Apple Support Community?

You can set up what timezone you want to see when people post, when an article was created, and when questions were asked, Follow Zachyy’s Instructions and you should be able to change your time zone.

Different people see other time zones than you do, So, yes there are people here from a lot of different countries, they can change their time zone on the discussions site to what their time zone actually is.

Another option: Apple offers user forums like these in seven other languages where those posting may have better time zone parity with you than the English-language forums:

Spanish: Comunidad de soporte de Apple oficial

Portuguese: Comunidade oficial de Suporte da Apple

German: Offizielle Apple Support Community

French: Communauté d’assistance Apple officielle

Chinese: 官方 Apple 支持社区

Japanese: 公式 Apple サポートコミュニティ

Korean

To change your time zone in the Apple Support Community, In your Profile preferences, there you can change your preferred time zone. Now you can reach other users on the same time zone as you.

Click here for your Community profile preferences ⇢ https://discussions.apple.com/profile/preferences and scroll down.

-Zachyy ✌️

No worries, good to see you around again! You are very kind, have a great rest of your day, and if you have any more questions, let us know and users here will be here to help you. I’ll personally be sure to try to respond to you alongside.

领114 wrote:

Do I reach people here from different countries when I am in a different time zone? If so, how does that work?Thanks!

Your time zone doesn't matter. Communication on the forums is not synchronous. Someone could reply to you immediately or it could be hours or days before someone responds to your post. That is expected. Even some people in the the same time zones keep different schedules.

All the timestamps on various posts that you see here, are converted to your timezone setting. It is not visible what the time was for them to post. E.g. I’m posting this at 21:45, but if you are in a different timezone than me, then you will see a different timestamp ↖︎ above.

Wouldn’t they be in a different language Allan?

Absolutely, but I saw our OP has a Chinese character in their username so I included other languages as an option to explore.

Ah I see, good observation.

领114 wrote:

What is OP? Good morning

That’s “Original Poster”. Y buenos noches.

As MrHoffman stated, users in the Community like to refer to the OP as the “Original Poster” of the question, which in this case is you! Good evening for me!

领114 wrote:

What is OP? Good morning

Ooops!! My apologies! All better—Zachyy was watching out for you.