Why Does Glide Think It’s Tomorrow at 8:00 PM Eastern?

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We have a Glide app used in Michigan (Eastern Time) and are seeing unexpected behavior with a “Today” date filter.

Our app changes to the next day at approximately 8:00 PM Eastern, which corresponds to midnight UTC.

We cannot find any app setting that tells Glide which time zone to use.

How does Glide determine the time zone used for “Today”?

Is there an app-level time zone setting, or does Glide calculate “Today” using UTC?

We simply need Today to change at midnight Eastern Time, not 8:00 PM Eastern.

What is the recommended way to accomplish this?

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Belated reply.

As far as I know, there isn’t anywhere in the app where you can define the timezone of the app, and I think this makes sense, as timezone really depends on the user, not the app.

When you create a Date column, there is a checkbox indicating to take into account user timezone.

If all of your users are in the same timezone (Michigan) and your app seems to be off by 8 hours, maybe you could create a new time column and create an 8-hour offset?