Timezone preferences

Family-Friendly Events shows dates and times in your local timezone so you never have to do the math.

In-person events are the exception, on purpose. An event happens on the clock of the place it happens at, so a 10:30 AM story time in Winchester is shown as 10:30 AM whether you are reading from Virginia or California — that is the time you would have to be there. The timezone is always named next to the time, so you can tell at a glance. Online events have no venue to travel to, so those follow your own timezone.

How your timezone is set

When you visit, we detect your browser's timezone and use it to display times for your session. If you're signed in, we may offer to save that timezone to your account so it stays consistent across devices — you can accept or dismiss the prompt.

Changing it yourself

You can set your timezone directly in Account Settings. We use a curated list of common timezones; pick the one that matches where you are. Times across the site — including a short timezone abbreviation — then follow your choice, apart from in-person events, which stay on their venue's clock.

If you travel

Your saved preference takes priority. If it no longer matches where you are, update it in Account Settings, or clear it to fall back to automatic detection.