When using the Share-a-Link collector, you can capture the respondent's timezone as a contact property by passing it as a query parameter in the survey URL. This allows you to automatically store the timezone information against the contact, enabling better insights and more personalized follow-ups.

How to Pass the Timezone as a Query Parameter

To capture the timezone information, you need to pass the contact.timezone key along with the appropriate numerical ID corresponding to the respondent's timezone in the survey URL. The ID for each timezone is predefined in our system.

https://example.freshsurvey.io/survey/b/4IHDKL?contact.work_email=<contact email>&contact.timezone=<TIMEZONE_ID>

Replace <TIMEZONE_ID> with the correct numerical ID from the list below.

Timezone and ID Mapping

Below table contains the list of timezones along with their respective numerical IDs that need to be passed in the query parameter.

Example:

If you want to pass the timezone for America/St_Lucia which has the ID as 206, the URL would look like this:

https://example.freshsurvey.io/survey/b/4IHDKL?contact.work_email=acme@example.com&contact.timezone=206

This will capture the timezone as America/St_Lucia and associate it with the acme@example.com's contact profile.