{"id":12154,"date":"2025-08-12T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visualtourbuilder.com\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=12154"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:59:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:59:58","slug":"handling-flight-dates-that-roll-back-a-day-due-to-time-zones","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/visualtourbuilder.com\/eng\/knowledge-base\/handling-flight-dates-that-roll-back-a-day-due-to-time-zones\/","title":{"rendered":"Handling flight dates that roll back a day due to time zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of<strong> time zone differences<\/strong>, it can happen that your <strong>flight<\/strong> appears to <strong>\u201ctravel back in time\u201d<\/strong> on paper. For example: you depart on the July 2 but arrive on the July 1 local time. This can be confusing in the system because it normally assumes dates progress chronologically. But there is a <strong>solution<\/strong>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>How it works<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enter the <strong>departure date<\/strong> of the <strong>flight<\/strong> as it is (for example, July 2).<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also enter the <strong>arrival date<\/strong>, even if it is earlier than the departure date (for example, July 1).<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Select a <strong>night flight<\/strong>, you can now enter a negative value for the number of nights, for example <\/span><b>-1<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12155\" src=\"https:\/\/visualtourbuilder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2025-08-11-om-15.01.51.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visualtourbuilder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2025-08-11-om-15.01.51.png 1788w, https:\/\/visualtourbuilder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2025-08-11-om-15.01.51-300x56.png 300w, https:\/\/visualtourbuilder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2025-08-11-om-15.01.51-1024x190.png 1024w, https:\/\/visualtourbuilder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2025-08-11-om-15.01.51-768x143.png 768w, https:\/\/visualtourbuilder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2025-08-11-om-15.01.51-50x9.png 50w, https:\/\/visualtourbuilder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Scherm\u00adafbeelding-2025-08-11-om-15.01.51-1536x285.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This indicates that the flight \u201c<strong>goes back one night<\/strong>\u201d in time.<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By entering <\/span><b>-1<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> night, the following destination block will <strong>automatically<\/strong> start on the correct <strong>arrival date<\/strong> (in this example, July 1).<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This way, the <strong>itinerary<\/strong> remains<strong> logical<\/strong> and <strong>chronologically<\/strong> consistent for the rest of the <strong>trip<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b><b><br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The <strong>red marking<\/strong> in the system is a <strong>warning<\/strong> to alert you that the dates do <strong>not progress<\/strong> chronologically. This is purely an alert signal and can be <strong>ignored<\/strong> if necessary.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of time zone differences, it can happen that your flight appears to \u201ctravel back in time\u201d on paper. For example: you depart on the July 2 but arrive on the July 1 local time. This can be confusing in the system because it normally assumes dates progress chronologically. But there is a solution! How &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/visualtourbuilder.com\/eng\/knowledge-base\/handling-flight-dates-that-roll-back-a-day-due-to-time-zones\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Handling flight dates that roll back a day due to time zones<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[47],"ht-kb-tag":[327,334,333,335,336],"class_list":["post-12154","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-building-vtbs","ht_kb_tag-flight","ht_kb_tag-flight-blok","ht_kb_tag-night-flight","ht_kb_tag-timezone","ht_kb_tag-timezones"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Handling flight dates that roll back a day due to time zones - Visual Tour Builder<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/visualtourbuilder.com\/eng\/knowledge-base\/handling-flight-dates-that-roll-back-a-day-due-to-time-zones\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Handling flight dates that roll back a day due to time zones - Visual Tour Builder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Because of time zone differences, it can happen that your flight appears to \u201ctravel back in time\u201d on paper. 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