UTC and Time Change

[Holly]

This is probably a very simple solution – we have many recurring all day events that we are setting up throughout the year. Whenever we set them up, we set them up with UTC -5 as the timezone – well, now we are in Daylight Savings time and it has pushed many of our one day events to two…is there a way to get the system to recognize when it’s DST rather than having to go into each event 2x per year and make those adjustments?

Does it have to do with our server time?

[Andras]

Hi Holly,

Thanks for going Pro and welcome to the forums!

I’m sorry your having this problem with the timezones. Let me try to help you with this.

First thing to set your server time properly. Usually the servers follow the summer / winter time, so I suggest to set this to your closest city (and not UTC +/- time).

Then for your events, since UTC based time doesn’t change with summer / winter time (UTC and the difference to UTC time never changes), I reco to set your events to the UTC time. This should also make the times proper when visitors download the iCal file or export it to Google calendar.

Try these settings and let me know how it works out.

Cheers,
Andras

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