docs(agents): show the session timezone override and state the UTC default - #199
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…fault Backend session examples in the quickstart and the authenticated sessions guide now pass `timezone`, and the Time & Timezone page opens with the default and where to change it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe documentation now describes UTC defaults, timezone configuration, resolution behavior, and per-session overrides. Session creation examples pass IANA timezone values through curl, Express, and Python flows. ChangesTimezone Documentation
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In `@agents/build/configuration.mdx`:
- Line 72: Update the conversation.timezone documentation to limit automatic use
of the caller’s device timezone to sessions that receive a device hint, and
state that authenticated sessions require the backend to forward
client_timezone; otherwise resolution falls back to phone-number inference or
UTC.
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| `conversation.timezone` is the default IANA timezone (like `Asia/Shanghai`) the agent uses for dates and times in conversation. Leave it empty for **automatic**: each session follows the caller's device or phone number, falling back to UTC. Set one when your agent serves a single region regardless of who calls. A per-session `timezone` on the [session request](/agents/build/time-timezone) overrides this. See [Time & timezone](/agents/build/time-timezone) for the full resolution order. | ||
| `conversation.timezone` is the default IANA timezone (like `Asia/Tokyo`) the agent uses for dates and times in conversation. Leave it empty for **automatic**: each session follows the caller's device or phone number, falling back to UTC. Set one when your agent serves a single region regardless of who calls. A per-session `timezone` on the [session request](/agents/build/time-timezone) overrides this. See [Time & timezone](/agents/build/time-timezone) for the full resolution order. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Limit the automatic-timezone claim to sessions that receive a device hint.
When conversation.timezone is empty, authenticated sessions do not automatically receive the caller's device timezone. The backend must forward client_timezone; otherwise, phone-number inference or UTC applies. Update this sentence to reflect that distinction.
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In `@agents/build/configuration.mdx` at line 72, Update the conversation.timezone
documentation to limit automatic use of the caller’s device timezone to sessions
that receive a device hint, and state that authenticated sessions require the
backend to forward client_timezone; otherwise resolution falls back to
phone-number inference or UTC.
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Summary
A backend that creates sessions with an API key gets UTC unless it sets a timezone, and the pages a backend developer reads first never mentioned it. The agent then speaks UTC as if it were the user's local time.
timezone, with one sentence explaining it and a link to Time & Timezone. Theclient_timezonerow in the request fields table now leads with what the field means, then how the SDK and a backend supply it.server.mjscreation examples passtimezone, with a short explanation under the curl example.Test plan
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Asia/Tokyo.timezoneparameter.