Why Timezone Scheduling
Actually Matters

A daily capture scheduled for “9 AM” should happen at 9 AM in your local timezone — not 9 AM UTC, not “server time”, not “somewhere close”. For teams tracking launches, banners, and promos, a few hours off can mean you simply miss the moment.

Real problems caused by bad timezone handling

When your screenshot system only understands UTC, you end up doing mental math (or worse, spreadsheet math) for every schedule. That leads to subtle but painful errors:

• Competitor launches new pricing at 9 AM EST → you capture at 2 PM and miss the first-wave reactions.
• EU cookie banner only appears 9–5 CET → a UTC-only tool runs outside that window and never captures it.
• Affiliate promo ends at midnight Tokyo time → your last capture is hours too late, showing the wrong version.

UTC vs local time — where things go wrong

Most cron-style schedulers store everything as UTC internally. That's fine for servers, but confusing for humans:

• You move from New York to London — do all jobs shift or stay?
• Daylight saving time changes — do “9 AM” jobs silently run at 8 AM for a week?
• Teams spread across timezones — whose “9 AM” is the source of truth?

A good screenshot scheduler should let you say: “Run at 9 AM America/New_York” and handle everything else, forever.

How we solve it

We support all 140+ timezones (America/New_York, Asia/Tokyo, Europe/Paris, etc.), and store the timezone along with the schedule. That means:

• Your “9 AM” jobs stay at 9 AM, even when DST changes.
• You can schedule captures for the customer's timezone, not your own.
• You never have to convert “CET” to UTC in your head again.

Best practices for timezone-safe schedules

• Always pick a specific timezone like America/Los_Angeles — avoid “UTC+X” offsets.
• Schedule captures a little before key events (e.g. 10–15 minutes early) when a page might change exactly on the hour.
• Use separate schedules per region: one for EU banners, one for US pricing, one for APAC promos.

TL;DR

Timezone scheduling isn't a "nice to have" — it's the difference between seeing what really happened and stitching it together after the fact. Automate by local time, and your screenshots will always match what real users saw.