The event clock is Eastern Time. Your city does not move the print.

Kalshi’s resolution clock follows the event, and the event is almost always stamped in US Eastern Time. A 14:00 ET Fed decision is 20:00 in Berlin in winter and 03:00 in Tokyo. The contract does not wait for your lunch.

That is not a reason to sit the night session. A working limit does not need you on the glass. If the book is thin after the print — it usually is — a market order from another timezone is how you donate the spread. Park the price you actually want. If it misses, the cash and the 3.5–4% APY are still there.

Daylight-saving weeks in March and November are when people fat-finger the offset. The US flips; Japan and Korea do not; Europe flips on a different Sunday. Recheck the gap before you assume last month’s 20:00 is still 20:00.

This is not a session guide and not a call on any contract. If the live ticket and this paragraph disagree, the ticket wins. StartKalshi does not place the order.