General Settings and Time Zone

Where to set your builder's time zone, and why it matters for daily reports, schedule tracking, and alerts.

Settings → General is where you set your builder's time zone — the single clock TPTM uses for every date-sensitive feature across your account.

ℹ️ Where to find it: Open Settings → General. It's the first item under Settings.

Why your time zone matters

TPTM uses your builder's time zone to decide what "today" means for your account — which affects:

  • Daily reports — the calendar day a report covers, and when it's sent.

  • Schedule activity — whether a change to a lot's projected close date counts as happening "today" or "yesterday."

  • Projected close alerts and other daily alerts — when they're evaluated and sent.

If your builder operates outside the Pacific time zone and this were left unset, these features would work off the wrong clock — a change made late in your afternoon could be recorded as happening the next day, or a report could arrive at an odd local hour.

Setting your time zone

  1. Go to Settings → General.

  2. Choose your time zone from the Time Zone dropdown.

  3. Click Save.

Time zone is a required field — every builder has one set, so date-sensitive features always have an accurate clock to work from.

⚠️ Permission needed: Changing this setting requires the Builder — update permission, typically held by Builder Admins. If you don't see the General page in your Settings menu, you don't have access to edit builder-wide settings.

Good to know

  • One clock for the whole builder. This is a single, account-wide setting — it isn't per-user or per-community.

  • Applies everywhere "your builder's local time" is mentioned — including the End of the Day Text's send hour.