Hi community!
I’m building a scheduling workflow using Google Calendar and Make. Everything works fine when I create an event, but when I extract the event to another module, the start and end times come 3 hours ahead of what I actually scheduled.
I’m based in Brazil (UTC−3), and both my Google Calendar and Make account are set to this time zone. However, the output of the Search Events module returns times in UTC, which makes the event appear incorrectly in downstream modules.
Is there a best practice to automatically convert from UTC to my local timezone (America/Sao_Paulo) when using the output of Google Calendar modules?
Thanks in advance!
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In the Start Time field of create an event, are you using “now” built in function?
No, I’m not using the now function.
The start time I’m using comes from a variable that is collected by an AI agent based on the user’s message (e.g., “I want to schedule for tomorrow at 10am”). The agent extracts this datetime and passes it as an input to the scenario.
So the value is dynamic, based on what the user writes.
Welcome to the Make community!
To do this, you can use the built-in function:
The function may have also been covered in the Make Academy tutorials — refer to the Make Academy Course Overview for more info.
Here’s an example of how you can use the function:
{{ formatDate(date; format; [timezone]) }}
(copy-paste the above into the field, or type it exactly as shown)
For more information, see Date Format links below.
Here are some useful links and guides you can use to learn more on how to use the Make platform, apps, and app modules. I found these useful when I was learning Make, and hope they might benefit you too —
Getting Started
Help Centre Basics
Articles & Videos
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
— @samliew
P.S.: investing some effort into the tutorials in the Make Academy will save you lots of time and frustration using Make!
