r/irlADHD 12d ago

Today I Learned! Had to cancel a date tonight because I saved an event with the wrong Timezone. How’s your day?

Kinda funny kinda not.

Was texting following up on plans for tonight when my mother texted reminding me we had plans to see a showing of her favourite movie tonight.

Surely not, it’s not in my calendar today? Oh phew it’s tomorrow…. Wait… it’s 6am tomorrow that’s wrong… “so sorry I have to cancel”.

I try to calendar everything because I have no time awareness and it’s the only way I can manage myself, but sometimes mistakes like this sneak in and mess things up.

A reminder when saving an event from a website or Facebook to local calendar to double check the Timezone! Luckily not a first date and she seems understanding.

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u/Nokomis34 12d ago

Not necessarily your fault. I've had this happen and it was the calendar's fault. It automatically adjusted the time when I changed the event time to account for me going into the new time zone.

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u/ADHDK 12d ago

Yea it used to be a common bug on Facebook events that they’d whack out the Timezone, but that was largely fixed years ago so I’d got complacent!

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u/NoVaFlipFlops 12d ago

I just realized my 30s are over. I turn 41 in July. 

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u/ADHDK 12d ago

That’s a wild Timezone difference!

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u/AppalachianKid 11d ago

It took me being diagnosed at 50 to realize my 20s are over, now 52 and seeking therapy for my 30s 🤣

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u/NoVaFlipFlops 11d ago

Crazy how that works! 

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u/linksgreyhair 12d ago

Sometimes my phone defaults to a timezone I haven’t lived in for years. I’ve got no idea why, but it’s caused several issues.