what is the Time zone used for signedDateTime field in get Envelope rest api response

Question

I have enabled the checkbox 'Allow users to set their own Time Zone and Date Format' under admin Regional Settings I have selected different time zones under Regional Settings for DocuSign sender, DocuSign viewer and DocuSign admin account settings. . I have created one envelope and used 3 users . one DocuSign sender , one DocuSign viewer and one non DocuSign user. 3 signers got signed. when I have tried to invoke the below rest api and included optional query parameter include=recipients

/restapi/v2.1/accounts/{accountId}/envelopes/{envelopeId}

signedDateTime field for all 3 users in the response shows the same time zone and that time zone is different from all the users settings. is signedDateTime field shows unique timezone irrespective of users timezone?

Answer 1

The timezone is an account settings and the sender's timezone is reflected in the envelope PDF. However, when you look at meta-data your own timezone can be used. The completed document cannot be different/modified for each user based on their timezone, since it's a document and there's only one version of that document, but meta-data in features like "history" and other places where you see information about the envelope will be done in the uers' selected timezone. Hope this makse sense.