No listing of valid timezones for windowsProfile

I have a template that deploys, among other things, a Windows VM, and I want to set the timezone in the template. However, the documentation is missing a list of valid values.

I found documentation for the windowsConfiguration object, but the only thing it says about the timeZone property is: @member {string} [timeZone] The time zone of the VM.

Is there a list of valid values somewhere? The value I tried was CDT, but that failed with an error like The value of parameter windowsConfiguration.timeZone is invalid.

Where can I find a complete list of acceptable values? Could this be added to the documentation?

My apologies if this is the wrong place to report this error. I looked in several places, including official Azure template documentation on docs.microsoft.com, but didn’t found an enumeration of values anywhere. If you can tell me a better place to report this, I’ll happily open an issue there.

Thanks

[huangpf]

@mrled @amarzavery I’m guessing it’s probably difficult to maintain to inject all Windows system time zone strings into the contract/specification, rather than directly refer to what Windows system takes as the norm. Here are some PS output that may help:

PS C:\windows\system32> [System.TimeZoneInfo]::GetSystemTimeZones()|?{$_.Id -like "Pacific*"}|select -ExpandProperty Id
Pacific Standard Time (Mexico)
Pacific Standard Time
Pacific SA Standard Time

PS C:\windows\system32> [System.TimeZoneInfo]::GetSystemTimeZones()|select -ExpandProperty Id
Dateline Standard Time
UTC-11
Aleutian Standard Time
Hawaiian Standard Time
Marquesas Standard Time
Alaskan Standard Time
...

[amarzavery]

I understand your problem. However I am not sure if there is any enumeration available for all the timezone values. The example in the previous comment gives you an idea of what the API expects.

Looping in folks from the Compute team. @hyonholee @huangpf @singhkays - Can one of you please help over here?