You can change your time zone and create events with certain time zones. This helps if you'll be traveling when the event happens, or if you're creating events for people in different time zones.
How Calendar uses time zones
- When you create an event, it appears in your local time zone. It will also show up in the local time zones for anyone you invite, even if they're in a different time zone.
- When you travel to a different time zone, your calendar appears in the local time.
- Tasks adapt to the new time zone if the Calendar’s time zone is changed after a task is created. For example, a 9 AM MT task changes to an 11 AM ET task if you travel from Denver to New York.
Change your time zone
Important: If you are not the owner, you can't change the time zone of a calendar.
Change the time zone for all your calendars- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- At the top right, click Settings menu
Settings.
- On the left, under "General," click Time zone.
- In the "Time zone" category, click Primary time zone.
- Search for a city or country.
- Select your preferred time zone.
Settings.Tip: To let Calendar confirm your primary time zone when you travel, click Ask to update my primary time zone to current location.
- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- On the left, click My calendars.
- Point to the calendar you want to change and click More
- In your calendar settings, click Time zone.
- Search for a city or country.
- Select your preferred time zone.
Use other time zones
Show additional time zones on your calendar gridImportant:
- In addition to your primary time zone, you can add a secondary and a tertiary time zone.
- Additional time zones appear on the left of your calendar grid.
- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- At the top right, click Settings menu
- On the left, under "General," click Time zone.
- Check the box next to Show additional time zones.
- Under "Secondary time zone," select your preferred time zone.
- (Optional) Under "Tertiary time zone," select your preferred time zone.
- On your computer, open Google Calendar .
- At the top left, click Create
- Next to the time for the event, click Time zone.
- Search for a city or country.
- Select your preferred time zone.
- If the event starts or ends in different time zones, click Use separate start and end time zones.
- Click OK.
- Fill in the details of your event
- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- Click the event
.
- Next to the time of the event, click Time zone.
- Search for a city or country.
- Select your preferred time zone.
- Click OK.
- On your computer, open Google Calendar.
- At the top right, click Settings menu
- In the "World clock" section, click Show world clock.
- Click Add time zone.
- Search for a city or country.
- Select your preferred time zone.
Understand how Calendar handles daylight saving time
Important:
- Events in the past years or future might not reflect daylight saving time changes. It might be incorrectly displayed.
- As the date changes within a few years, the displayed time automatically adjusts.
To avoid issues with daylight saving time, Google Calendar uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). Learn more about UTC.
When events are created, they're converted into UTC, but you'll always see them in your local time.
If an area switches their time zone, events created before we knew about the change might be in the wrong time zone.