Make AI Agent keeps adding +1 hour to the Start Date when setting Calendar events

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Hi,

I’ve managed to get my agent to create a Notion task which is great, today I added another scenario which creates a Google Calendar event.

I’ve set the input and output variables correctly I believe, but it errors because the start date is always +1 hour than the time I stated.

The correct time is being passed as an output from the Agent, my timezone is set correctly in Make, I’m not quite sure where it’s going wrong!

Any suggestions?

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Ok, I found out why (kind of). When I set the outputs for the Start and End Date, Start Date was set to the type “Date” and End Date was set to “Text”. When I set them both to text it worked. It seems that maybe selecting Date means that Make was adding another hour (for daylight savings) when it had already had that hour added previously. Hope this helps someone.

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@Adam_Francombe
I ran into a similar issue recently, I figured it’s because the timezone setting in make (in my case London GMT+00:00) doesn’t accommodate daylight saving time (British Summer Time, GMT+01:00).
In case it helps anyone; I fixed it in scenario by specifying the timezone whenever parsing a date as text:
{{formatDate(now; “DD.MM.YYY HH:mm”; “Europe/London”)}}