# Time zone issue

**URL:** <https://community.make.com/t/time-zone-issue/74660>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** date-time-functions\
**Created:** [March 10, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/time-zone-issue/74660 "2025-03-10T17:06:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Vipark](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.make.com/vipark/32/65990_2.png) [@Vipark](https://community.make.com/u/Vipark)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.make.com/t/time-zone-issue/74660/1 "2025-03-10T17:06:48Z")

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Dear Make community,

I am struggling with a time zone issue :

Goal : I’m french and need to write the month in full letters like “mars”  
Problem : I get it in english (March) while I am indicating the right TZ code “Europe/Paris”

My function in details : {{formatDate(now; “MMMM”; “Europe/Paris”)}}

I specify that my user settings are set up in Paris GMT+1.

Anyone gets an idea?

PS : I have a solution by adding a function “replace” but the function is very long now^^

Thank you in advance!

Vipark

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**Author:** ![Stoyan\_Vatov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Stoyan\_Vatov](https://community.make.com/u/Stoyan_Vatov)\
**Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 10:47am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/time-zone-issue/74660/2 "2025-03-11T10:47:41Z")

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Hey Vipark,

just to clarify - Europe/Paris is only for the time zone, it has nothing to do with the language of the resulting output.

I’m afraid Make doesn’t have localization settings like this, so you will have to do it with a Switch module, switch() or replace() formulas.

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**Author:** ![Make\_Bot](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.make.com/make_bot/32/14661_2.png) [@Make\_Bot](https://community.make.com/u/Make_Bot)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 9:57am UTC](https://community.make.com/t/time-zone-issue/74660/3 "2025-06-09T09:57:33Z")

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