# Your calendar

> The hours you are bookable, how blocks and holidays work, and why a slot you expected to see may not be offered.

Source: https://www.revquix.com/docs/mentors/your-calendar
Last verified: 2026-09-03

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Your calendar decides when a buyer can book you. Nothing else does - a published service with no
bookable hours is a listing nobody can act on.

## The two things you control

1. **Recurring hours.** The pattern of when you are normally available.
2. **Blocks.** Specific periods you are not - holidays, travel, a busy fortnight.

The calendar page shows what those two produce: how many hours are bookable in the next 7 days and
the next 14. Those counts are the honest answer to "am I actually bookable", and they are worth
checking after any change.

## Your timezone

Slots are held in your timezone and shown to each buyer in theirs. If you travel, change your
timezone in settings - the calendar reads it rather than guessing from your browser, so a trip does
not silently move every slot you have published.

> **Warning** - Changing timezone moves your existing pattern
>
> Your recurring hours are a pattern in _your_ timezone. Change the timezone and 9am stays 9am - which
> is what you want when you have moved, and not what you want if you only travelled for a week.

## Why a slot is not offered

An hour can be inside your recurring pattern and still not be bookable. Usually one of:

- **Something is already booked in it.** Bookings hold their slot exclusively.
- **A block covers it.**
- **It is too close to now.** A slot starting in a few minutes is not offered, because neither of you
  can prepare and reminders will not reach the buyer in time.
- **It is past the end of your published window.**

That third one has a consequence worth knowing about, covered in [running a session](https://www.revquix.com/docs/mentors/running-a-session): a booking made at very
short notice gets **no reminder emails at all**, only the confirmation.

## When a booking already exists

Removing hours or adding a block does **not** cancel bookings already in them. An existing booking is
a commitment and the calendar will not quietly break it. If you need to move one, reschedule it
explicitly - see [rescheduling and cancelling](https://www.revquix.com/docs/mentors/rescheduling-and-cancelling).

- [Bookings and orders](https://www.revquix.com/docs/mentors/bookings-and-orders) - What has been booked, and what has been paid.

- [Running a session](https://www.revquix.com/docs/mentors/running-a-session) - Joining, the window, and what counts as turning up.