Tenant Time Zone defaulting behavior

From what I can tell, tenant Time Zone defaulting seems to follow the following hierarchy

  • at the tenant level in Tenant Environment Setup - Environment

    if no records defined here, then

  • in _base tenant in the Tenant Management app, specify a value in the Default Time Zone field

    if no default time zone defined, then

  • ???

What is the ultimate fall back default tenant time zone if it is specified in neither of the above locations?

You are correct about the fallback hierarchy. If nothing is defined in either Tenant Environment Setup nor Tenant Management, the system will assume a default time zone of UTC.

The only exception to this is Tenant Data Refresh’s automatic scheduling behavior, which defaults to “US/Central” instead of UTC.

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