On a published Capable Site, an Event macro shows UTC times rather than the visitor's local times
What you are seeing
On a published Capable Site, an Event macro shows UTC times rather than the visitor's local times.
#Why it happens
The macro's default Time zone means "the viewer's zone", and a static site is built with no viewer, so it falls back to UTC.
#What to do
Set an explicit Time zone on any Event macro that will be exported to a site.
#Settings involved
Setting | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
Calendar subscriptions | Confluence settings → Capable (Capable Calendar in the standalone app) → Features | "Let users subscribe to Capable calendars from Google, Apple, or Outlook via a personal iCal feed. Turn off to disable subscriptions for all users." Only appears when the installed app includes the Calendar capability. T |
Calendar (global settings tab) | Confluence settings → Capable → Calendar | Card title "Calendar subscriptions", description "Personal iCal feed links your users have generated for calendars." Lists user, calendar, status and created date, paged with Previous/Next. Non-administrators see "Conflu |
Calendar capability visibility | Space settings → Capable → capability list → Calendar | Auto shows the byline where relevant. In the Suite that means only on pages Capable has already indexed as carrying dates. Always forces Calendar on for the space; Never hides it there. This is the generic per-capability |
#Limits that apply here
Limit | Value | What happens |
|---|---|---|
Event macro title | - | - |
Saved event name | - | A 3-character event title is rejected on save. The same 4-character floor is why .ics import skips very short titles. |
Saved event description | - | - |
#Related
On a newly installed site the Subscribe panel says subscriptions "aren't available for this site yet
Subscriptions need the site's secure connection to Capable's service to be provisioned fir
Export → iCal and Export → CSV in the macro's "…" overflow menu do nothing when clicked
Those two menu items in the macro's compact toolbar have no action wired to them. The same
Export and published sites
The rest of this family.
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