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My goal is to have the app be independent of time zones. If a shift at a hospital starts on 8/15 at 8AM, that’s what it needs to say for every user regardless of where they are.

I think I’ve managed a partial fix now by setting the time zone to the hospital’s address when the hospital posts a shift. This now lists the shift date correctly, but I still fear users will still see the wrong shift dates somehow.

Using a separate timezone for each Hospital is fine… as long as you don’t need to cross-reference shifts from one hospital to another (across different timezones) as that will lead to date mismatches.

(for example, if doing this for hotel bookings, where you need to check available dates on hotels in different timezones, using the Hotel timezone will not work - for that you should use UTC).

But if you don’t need to do that, and each Hospital’s shifts are completely isolated from any other hospital’s then using the Hospital timezone is fine.

Just don’t use the User’s timezone.

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