With this feature, you can enable POM to use the area code and the phone starting digits to automatically determine the time zone for a phone number.
You can map a country to multiple time zones, and a time zone can have multiple area codes. Also, an area code can have multiple phone starting digits.
You can set a default time zone and guard time for a country. If a phone number does not match the mapped area codes or time zones for a country, POM maps the default time zone to the phone number.
If a country code associated with the phone number is not found in the POM database, POM does not import the contact.
POM uses the following rules to determine the time zone for a phone number:
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Time zone
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Mapping
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Result
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No time zone is defined for a country.
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NA
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POM uses the time zone in which POM imports the contact.
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Only one time zone is defined for a country.
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No mapping defined for the country.
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As the country has only one time zone, POM uses that time zone and does not consider the other mappings.
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Only one area code mapping defined for time zone.
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Multiple area code mapping for a time zone.
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Multiple time zones are defined for a country.
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The phone number matches with one of the time zones and the area code mapping.
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POM uses the matched time zone.
Note:
To enable an import file with a time zone attribute, you can add time zone configurations without defining the area codes. The time zone can have a mismatch with the phone numbers area code with a correct guard time.
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