How do you handle timezone issues in WooCommerce hotel bookings?

[Liam Forbs]

I manage a hotel booking website using WooCommerce, and international customers are sometimes seeing incorrect check-in/check-out dates because of timezone differences between their location and the server timezone. A few bookings were even shifted by one day during checkout confirmation.

I’m looking for the best way to standardize booking times, sync calendars correctly, and avoid timezone related reservation errors for global customers.

[Styles maccal]

The best way to avoid timezone issues in a WooCommerce hotel booking store is to store all booking data in UTC internally and display dates using the hotel’s local timezone. Also, use date-based reservations instead of exact timestamps, keep Google Calendar/iCal sync on the same timezone, and clearly mention the hotel timezone during checkout. Testing bookings from multiple countries before launch also helps catch date-shifting issues early.

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