# TImezone in email notifications

**URL:** <https://forum.mattermost.com/t/timezone-in-email-notifications/300>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [October 6, 2015, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/timezone-in-email-notifications/300 "2015-10-06T13:04:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![kdevineni](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/kdevineni/32/142_2.png) [@kdevineni](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/kdevineni)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 1:04pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/timezone-in-email-notifications/300/1 "2015-10-06T13:04:42Z")

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I have successfully installed mattermost v.1.0 version with postgres database.

The email notifications(with “ **You were mentioned** ”) sent are having the timezone as GMT, how do we configure mattermost to send emails with local server timezone ?

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**Author:** ![lfbrock](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/lfbrock/32/1901_2.png) [@lfbrock](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/lfbrock)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/timezone-in-email-notifications/300/2 "2015-10-06T14:10:33Z")

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Thanks for bringing this up, it seems like a usability issue so I’ve made a ticket here to fix the issue: [https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/PLT-541](https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/PLT-541)