Managing Events With Google Calendar

Once you have created an Event Notifier, you can manage all of your events from Google Calendar.

Creating Events

As you can see in the image below, most of the event properties are rather self-explanatory (event title and description for example), but a few have special features.

Google Calendar Event Example

Event Title

The event’s title is the main header for the event. This title, within Discord, becomes a link based on how you configure your notifier settings.

Location

If a valid URL is entered in the location field, the event title will become a clickable link within reminders sent to Discord. You can also use this field to enter physical locations, or specify Discord Voice Channels.

Notifications

Event notification times are used by Chronicle Bot to schedule reminder messages to your Discord channel. This allows you to customize reminders for a specific event. Notification times set here can be combined with any set within Chronicle Bot directly.

Event Details

The details entered here are used in Discord reminders to inform your members. Any styling, lists, or links entered here will show up in Discord. This can be useful if you need to provide multiple links for an event.

You can also include Front Matter in the event description to customize how the event appears in Discord.

Dynamic Timestamps

You can embed a dynamic, time-zone-aware timestamp directly within an event’s description. When the event is posted to Discord, Chronicle converts the timestamp into one of Discord’s native time formats, which each member sees in their own time zone and which can display a live countdown such as in 3 hours.

A timestamp is added using square brackets containing a Unix timestamp (in seconds):

[t:1750770060]

By default this displays both the date and time. To control how the timestamp is rendered, add an optional style letter after a colon:

[t:1750770060:R]

The available styles are listed below.

Style	Description	Example
d	Short date	06/24/2026
D	Long date	June 24th, 2026
t	Short time	9:01 AM
T	Long time with seconds	9:01:00 AM
f	Long date + time (default)	June 24th, 2026 at 9:01 AM
F	Long date with day of week + time	Wednesday, June 24th at 2026 9:01 AM
s	Short date + time	06/24/2026 9:01 AM
S	Short date + time with seconds	06/24/2026 9:01:00 AM
R	Relative	in 3 hours

If you need help generating a Unix timestamp for a specific moment, https://hammertime.cyou is a handy tool for building and previewing Discord timestamps.

Why Square Brackets?

Discord’s native timestamps use angle brackets, like <t:1750770060>, but Google Calendar treats anything wrapped in <...> as an HTML tag and will strip or mangle it before the bot ever sees it. To work around this, you enter the Calendar-safe [t:...] form instead. Chronicle automatically converts it to Discord’s <t:...> when posting to your server, and converts it back to [t:...] when writing to your calendar, so the timestamp continues to work no matter which side you edit your event from.

If you use Custom Message Templates, the discordDateTime function provides the same Discord time formats from within a template. The timestamp token described here is intended for plain event descriptions, where no template is involved.

Updating Events

Chronicle Bot subscribes to real-time updates for the Google calendars you have connected. This subscription caused Google to send updates to the bot as you are making changes in your calendar. Updates are then applied within Discord to the reminders, summaries, and synced events that have already been created.

Deleting Events

Events that have been deleted in Google Calendar will cause the bot to perform several cleanup processes.

• Synced Discord events will be canceled
• Event Summaries that contain the event will be updated to remove the cancelled event
• Reminder or Update messages will be edited to reflect the cancellation (based on your Activity Messsages Settings)