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TaskNotes times follow your timezone

Shipped in version 2.7.0

If you sync your vault between devices in different timezones, or your tasks are created by a tool that stamps times in UTC (Apple Shortcuts, web automations, server-side sync), TaskForge now shows those times in your device's local time.

This matches the behavior of TaskNotes' own calendar view, so the same task shows the same wall-clock time in both apps.

What changed

TaskNotes lets you store a time on a task using a timezone suffix:

  • scheduled: 2025-01-01T08:00:00Z: the Z means UTC.
  • scheduled: 2025-01-01T08:00:00+08:00: the +08:00 is the writer's local offset.

Before this release, TaskForge displayed the verbatim numbers: 08:00 regardless of where you were. After this release, TaskForge converts the time to your device's local timezone:

  • A task scheduled for 2025-01-01T08:00:00Z shows as 16:00 if your device is set to UTC+8 (Singapore, Beijing, Perth).
  • The same task shows as 00:00 on Jan 1 if your device is set to UTC (London in winter).
  • The same task shows as 03:00 on Jan 1 if your device is set to UTC+3.

If the conversion crosses midnight, the task moves to the correct local day. A task scheduled 2025-01-01T20:00:00Z is 04:00 on Jan 2 for someone in UTC+8, so it appears on January 2nd in their calendar, not January 1st.

What stays the same

If you typed a time yourself, like scheduled: 08:00 or scheduled: 2025-01-01T08:00 (no timezone suffix), TaskForge treats it as wall-clock time and shows it exactly as you wrote it, regardless of your timezone. Nothing about the appearance of these times changes.

This means everyone who's only ever edited tasks inside TaskForge or Obsidian's normal flow sees no difference. The change is only visible for times that explicitly carry a UTC or offset suffix.

When this matters

  • You use Apple Shortcuts or web automations that create TaskNotes tasks with a UTC timestamp.
  • You sync your vault between devices in different timezones: a task scheduled in Singapore now displays correctly when you read it in London.
  • You collaborate on a shared vault with people in other timezones.

Sorting

Two tasks created on the same day used to be considered "tied" when sorting by Date Created or Date Modified: alphabetical order broke the tie. With this release, the actual time of day is used to break the tie. "Most recently modified" now means it, even when comparing two tasks edited within the same day.

No setting required

There's no new toggle. TaskForge follows your device's timezone automatically, same as TaskNotes itself does.