# How to get user's timezone

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-get-users-timezone/1224457>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** clock, time\_picker\
**Created:** [April 14, 2021, 10:08pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-get-users-timezone/1224457 "2021-04-14T22:08:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![domhnallohanlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/domhnallohanlon/32/29554_2.png) [@domhnallohanlon](https://community.thunkable.com/u/domhnallohanlon)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 11:23am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-get-users-timezone/1224457/12 "2021-05-06T11:23:44Z")

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> [@a.sa.pellaiahj3c](#):
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> sounds good could you explain it further?

> [@human](#):
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> I am not good with APIs or databases.

@a.sa.pellaiahj3c & @human APIs are definitely a big topic and can be tricky to understand if it’s your first time seeing them. Thankfully there are lots of great tutorials, both here and on YouTube, that explain this topic.

Here’s a great one from @tatiang to get you started:

> [@API JSON Tutorial (Video)](https://community.thunkable.com/t/api-json-tutorial-video/1140575):
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> Using APIs in Thunkable and understanding how to parse JSON to get certain data from the API response is both a popular and a difficult aspect of using Thunkable. It’s not so much difficult because of Thunkable but because every API url format is different, every API documentation is different, every JSON response is different, etc. In this video, I spend a lot of time talking you through some best practices. It’s not a quick tutorial because if you rush through setting up an API in Thunkable, …

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