Adding ability to retrieve time zone for user entity

[TapanParikh]

What is changing?
We have added the ability to retrieve user’s time zone to all the REST APIs which retrieve user profile information.

If the user has set up a time zone, it will be retrieved from the user profile, otherwise it will default to the tenant time zone.

user with time zone

"timeZone": "US/Pacific"

user without time zone

"timeZone": "America/Los_Angeles" (default to tenant time zone)

Why is it changing?
This was requested by the developer community.

When will this roll out?
We will release in increment phases in production (10%, 50%, and 100%). Target to 100% production Dec 9, 2021.

[ademoss]

@TapanParikh awesome! Is this coming to Jira Cloud as well?

[TapanParikh]

Thanks for reaching out. Hope this fix works for you.

Unfortunately, I am from Confluence Cloud team not sure about Jira Cloud timeline.

[sash011]

Thanks you @TapanParikh
Which APIs in particular? Are you talking about these?

https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/api-group-users/#api-wiki-rest-api-user-get
https://developer.atlassian.com/cloud/confluence/rest/api-group-users/#api-wiki-rest-api-user-current-get

Alex

[andreas1]

Dear @TapanParikh ,

wouldn’t it make sense the add the locale as well. The same arguments apply here as well. The Jira REST response on /rest/api/3/user contains the locale, the corresponding response in Confluence does not.

Thank you

Andreas

[TapanParikh]

Thanks for reaching out.
It will impact all the APIs which fetches user entities.

[TapanParikh]

Thanks for bringing that up.
We can do some analysis on our end and we can handle it in a separate ticket to add the new locale parameter.