RegionalSettings Element (Regional Settings)

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Contains the regional settings for currency, language, locale, and time zone that are used in the deployment of Windows SharePoint Services. Used in TIMEZONE.XML (\\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\CONFIG). and RGNLSTNG.XML (\\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\12\TEMPLATE\1033\XML).

<RegionalSettings>
</RegionalSettings>

Attributes

Attribute	Description
None	N/A

Child Elements

Currencies, Languages, Locales, TimeZones

Parent Elements

None

Occurrences

Minimum: 0 Maximum: 1

Example

The following example outlines the structure of the file TIMEZONE.XML.

<RegionalSettings>
  <TimeZones>
  ...
    <TimeZone ID="13" Name="(GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US and Canada); 
      Tijuana" Hidden="FALSE">
      <Bias>480</Bias>
      <StandardTime>
        <Bias>0</Bias>
        <Date>
          <Month>10</Month>
           <Day>5</Day>
           <Hour>2</Hour>
         </Date>
       </StandardTime>
       <DaylightTime>
         <Bias>-60</Bias>
         <Date>
           <Month>4</Month>
           <Day>1</Day>
           <Hour>2</Hour>
          </Date>
        </DaylightTime>
      </TimeZone>
      <TimeZone ID="14" Name="(GMT-09:00) Alaska" Hidden="FALSE">
        <Bias>540</Bias>
        <StandardTime>
          <Bias>0</Bias>
          <Date>
            <Month>10</Month>
            <Day>5</Day>
            <Hour>2</Hour>
          </Date>
        </StandardTime>
        <DaylightTime>
          <Bias>-60</Bias>
          <Date>
            <Month>4</Month>
            <Day>1</Day>
            <Hour>2</Hour>
          </Date>
        </DaylightTime>
      </TimeZone>
      ...
  </TimeZones>
</RegionalSettings>