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Default Date Doesn't Honor Local Date

  • February 28, 2026
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Given:

  • Date field (that does not include time)
  • Set to local time (EST)
  • Set to default to the current date.

Result: when within the UTC-5 window (i.e. after 7pm) the displayed date defaults to the next day.

There MUST be away to make this work correctly - yes?

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TheTimeSavingCo
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Hm, could you provide some screeenshots of your field setup?

When you said ‘Set to local time’, I was thinking you were talking about ‘Use the same time zone for all collaborators’, but if a Date field doesn’t have ‘Include time’ toggled on I can’t set a time zone for it at all so I figure I’m not understanding something

Toggled off:

 

 

Toggled on:

 

 


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  • March 1, 2026

So this image shows my test table. The field “Real Text Time” is just a manual entry reflecting the date-time that I added a record.

 

 

This the field settings for “Default Current Date”