Playground Test Event

Testing Piefed’s display of time & date for an event.

• Event’s advertised date & time, US Eastern Time: Friday 9th January, 19.30
• My local time (Mexico, Zona Centro): Friday 9th January, 18.30 (Hopefully this is what Piefed will show me once event published)
• UTC: Saturday 10th January, 00.30
• https://everytimezone.com/s/edb63f32

Documenting event post steps

1. Create post > Event
2. Title: Playground Test Event
3. Start: 09/01/2026 & 19.30
4. End: 09/01/2026 & 21.30
5. Timezone: change from America/Mexico_City to America/New_York
6. Banner > Browse & choose.
7. Body: Will come back and insert this text.
8. Online Link: https://piefed.social/about
9. Tag: test
10. Click Publish (no other changes, e.g. no post scheduling, repeats etc)

Re timezone, steps 3, 4 & 5

I want to post watch parties, most of which are advertised as US Eastern Time. So I chose America/New_York because:

1. It would make my life easier to fill in times & dates that way, so that I don’t have to convert the times myself, which can be a bother, especially around the times of year when the US changes clocks back and forth from Daylight Savings Time (which we don’t do in my time zone in Mexico).
2. I hope to avoid any problems that might arise if, around the time that the US changes clocks, I published an event using Mexico time (which doesn’t change) but the event will actually occur according to US time, which does change.