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

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/why-does-glide-think-it-s-tomorrow-at-8-00-pm-eastern/87694>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [September 15, 2026, 2:39pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/why-does-glide-think-it-s-tomorrow-at-8-00-pm-eastern/87694 "2026-09-15T14:39:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![RayG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RayG](https://community.glideapps.com/u/RayG)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2026, 2:39pm UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/why-does-glide-think-it-s-tomorrow-at-8-00-pm-eastern/87694/1 "2026-09-15T14:39:24Z")

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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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**Author:** ![nathanaelb](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/nathanaelb/32/43079_2.png) [@nathanaelb](https://community.glideapps.com/u/nathanaelb)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2026, 7:21am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/why-does-glide-think-it-s-tomorrow-at-8-00-pm-eastern/87694/2 "2026-10-05T07:21:37Z")

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> [@RayG](#):
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> Is there an app-level time zone setting, or does Glide calculate “Today” using UTC?

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?