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 ## Managing timezones
 
-Every Supabase database is set to UTC timezone by default. We strongly recommend keeping it this way, even if your users are in a different location.
-This is because it makes it much easier to calculate differences between timezones if you adopt the mental model that everything in your database is in UTC time.
+Every hosted Supabase database is set to UTC timezone by default. We strongly recommend keeping it this way, even if your users are in a different location. This is because it makes it much easier to calculate differences between timezones if you adopt the mental model that everything in your database is in UTC time.
+
+<Admonition type="tip">
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+On self-hosted databases, the timezone defaults to your local timezone. We recommend [changing this to UTC](/docs/guides/database/postgres/configuration#change-timezone) for the same reasons.
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+</Admonition>
 
 ### Change timezone