Set your timezone

Settings → Timezone. Pick the zone you actually live in and press Save. New accounts start on UTC, and leaving it there is the single most common reason something looks an hour or two out.

What it decides

Your timezone is what the app means by now:

• which day the calendar opens on, and where the red current-time line sits
• what the dashboard counts as today
• when a todo goes overdue
• which board cards are late
• the zone new events are recorded in

Before it was set, an evening in Copenhagen after 22:00 would open the calendar on yesterday, and a todo due at 17:00 would go red at three.

What it does not do

Changing it moves nothing that is already written down. A 09:00 meeting stays a 09:00 meeting.

That is because Dawn stores the clock face an event shows on its own calendar, not an instant on a global timeline. Your 09:00 is 09:00 on every screen you open it on, including a laptop opened in another country — the browser's own timezone is deliberately never consulted.

Where it does get converted

Two edges turn a face back into a real moment, because the other side keeps real moments:

• An iCal subscription out of Dawn, so somebody subscribed to your calendar sees your 09:00 at the right hour of their day.
• An invitation email, so the attendee's mail client puts it in the right slot.

So changing your timezone does change the hour those two publish at, following the zone's own daylight-saving rule. That is the intended behaviour, and it is the reason the setting is worth getting right early.

A flight is the one record with two zones, because its two ends are in different ones. Its two clocks are each kept at their own airport, and neither is converted into the other.