Google Calendar after Moving to a Different Time Zone

[karatekidk]

Hi, all. If this is not the right place to ask this question, my apologies.

I am sure there are many people who move to a different country/time zone and live there. When that happens, they change the time zone of their calendar app to the one they live in.

The issue of doing it would be messing up the times of all the previous events they had in the country they moved out of with the old time zone. Is there a solution? By the way, I use Google Calendar.

Thank you for your time!

 

[BigBlur]

It depends on what kinds of events you have on your calendar. The existing events will stay on the old timezone it was created in. For example, if you're in Los Angeles and have a 9AM event for a meeting. That will appear as a 12PM event when you're in New York.

If you're using events as reminders (i.e. take a pill at 9AM), then you'll need to adjust those manually.

Use Google Calendar in different time zones - Computer - Google Calendar Help

You can change your time zone and create events with certain time zones. This helps if you'll be traveling when the event happens, or if you're creating events for people in different time zones. You

support.google.com

 

[NoBoMac]

Not sure this will work, but Google Calendar does support timezones on a per-calendar basis. So:

Export all the events to an ics file.
Create new calendar, "Archive"
Import ics into Archive.
Set timezone for Archive to be old timezone (under Settings > Settings for my Calendars > [calendar name here]

Or easiest, can set a second display timezone for calendars, so can see the events in both TZs.

 

[karatekidk]

Thank you for the comments, and my apologies for not responding until now.

I'm overseas now and will be for the time being. I changed the timezone of the google calendar recently. As a result, or course, the times of all the events in the past are messed up and changed to the time zone I am in right now.

So, again, is there any way to prevent it? I am not that tech savvy, so I have not tried what NoBoMac suggested. Maybe I should give it a try.

Thank you!