My session times are showing in the wrong timezone

Overture displays every time in your device's local timezone. If a session is showing the wrong time, your device's clock or timezone setting is the culprit — not the app.

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The quick answer

Overture doesn't have its own timezone setting. Every session time you see — on the dashboard, in the run of show, on printed sheets — is rendered in your device's local timezone.

If a 9:00 AM keynote is showing as 6:00 AM on your laptop, your laptop thinks it's in a different timezone than the event venue.

Why we do it this way

You and your crew might be in different cities — remote stage manager in Denver, on-site producer in Phoenix, client reviewing from New York. Showing each person their own local time means nobody has to do math during a live show.

The actual session times are stored once in the database and converted to local time in the browser. So everyone is looking at the same moment in time, displayed in their own zone.

If the times look wrong

  1. Check your device clock first. Look at the time in your menu bar or status bar. Is it correct for where you actually are?
  2. Check your device timezone.
    • macOS: System Settings → General → Date & Time.
    • Windows: Settings → Time & Language → Date & Time.
    • iOS: Settings → General → Date & Time.
    • Android: Settings → System → Date & Time.
  3. Turn on "Set automatically". Most devices will pick up the right timezone from your network if you let them.
  4. Refresh Overture. Hard-refresh the page (Cmd‑Shift‑R on Mac, Ctrl‑Shift‑R on Windows) so the new timezone takes effect immediately.

What times are stored

In the database, every timestamp is stored as a UTC value with timezone info. Nothing in Overture is ambiguous — the moment in time is exact. Only the display depends on your device.