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

-

-



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