Time Zone color event bar. Also import from Tripit

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I’m not quite sure how the time zone feature is supposed to work.
This is what I did: Manually entering an EVENT: Flight from NY, leaving Tuesday - 10 PM -4 UTC] to Singapore arriving Thursday 6 AM +8UTC.
This resulted in the color calendar event bar extending from Tuesday to Wednesday.
Why does the color calendar bar not extend to Thursday?
The event entry, however, remains correct: Tuesday 10 PM -4 UTC and Thursday 6AM +8UTC

The same flight entered in eM Client via TRIPIT shows START: Tuesday 10 PM END Wednesday 5PM
The DESCRIPTION reads : START: Tuesday, 10 PM END: Thursday 6 AM
Again, color calendar event bar extends from Tuesday to Wednesday, not Thursday.
Seems that the imported info from TRIPIT is experiencing a problem.

Can someone help me understand this?
Thanks.

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Hi @JimM,
This is the expected behavior, and your event is saved correctly.
The calendar view always shows events in your computer’s time zone, not in the time zones entered in the event. The event details keep the original time zones, which is why they still show Tuesday 10 PM (UTC-4) and Thursday 6 AM (UTC+8).

Here’s the conversion for your flight:

  • Departure: Tuesday 10 PM (UTC-4) = Wednesday 2 AM (UTC)
  • Arrival: Thursday 6 AM (UTC+8) = Wednesday 10 PM (UTC)

The flight takes about 20 hours. Since Singapore is 12 hours ahead of New York, the arrival on Thursday 6 AM Singapore time is Wednesday evening in New York time. That’s why the bar in your calendar ends on Wednesday.

The same applies to the TripIt event: the end time shown as Wednesday 5 PM is the arrival time converted to your local time zone. The small difference of one hour most likely comes from the data TripIt provides or from daylight saving time. The original times in the description are correct.

To make trips like this easier to follow, you can add a second time zone to your calendar:

  1. Go to Menu > Settings > Calendar>Time Zones
  2. Click Add
  3. Add your desired timezone
  4. Click Save & Close.

In the Day, Work week, Week, and Upcoming views, you’ll then see a second time column next to your local times. This way you can see that the event ends at 6 AM on Thursday in Singapore.