How to create new events in a calendar using the CAL time zone and not the user time zone?

Taylor Bazhaw

I'm still pretty new to this so apologies if I missed something obvious

I get that events in a calendar are displayed according to user time zone - that's great and exactly what we want

Let me start with my problem

I'm making a calendar for my team, and we work internationally. New Years Day in Japan is Dec 31st (mostly) on the West Coast US. So I need a way to create events in different time zones, like "JPN | New Year's Day" 12a-12p on 01/01 in JST, and display that accurately for the user, which for us would be something like "JPN | New Year's Day" 7a 12/31 - 7a 01/01, assuming the user is set to PST time zone. 

I can create new calendars in different time zones. What I'm struggling with is creating an event in the same time zone as the calendar I'm adding the event to, and NOT the time zone of the user. There just doesn't seem to be a way to do it? If I create an event on a calendar set to a different time zone, the time zone of all new events are always set to my time zone and not the time zone of the calendar that it's on. Doesn't that make the calendar time zone virtually useless?

I can theoretically convert everything manually. It's just a lot lengthier of a process. And I have a long list of holidays in many different countries

Peter_DevSamurai

Hi @Taylor Bazhaw ,

You can upvote similar requests at CONFCLOUD-78945 for event timezone options since there's no direct way to set an event's timezone to the calendar's during creation. 

You can work around by temporarily change your user timezone:

1. Go to your profile (top-right avatar) > Settings > Edit > Time zone > Select "Asia/Tokyo" (JST).
2. Create the event: In the calendar > Add event > Set date/time as 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM on Jan 1 (it'll use JST).
3. Save, then switch your timezone back to your usual (e.g., America/Los_Angeles for PST).

• The event is stored in UTC internally, so it displays correctly adjusted for all viewers (e.g., spans Dec 31-Jan 1 in PST).
• Repeat for each country's holidays -> It's manual but ensures accuracy without offset calculations.

For bulk additions (your long list), consider importing via iCal (.ics) file with timezone specified in the file (e.g., DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20250101T000000). Calendar settings > Subscribe > Import from file.

I know this will require manual works since it's a long list but hopefully Confluence will support this soon.

Best,

Peter