How to set Logic Pro X’s project time and banish that pesky leading hour

If you record or edit in Logic, you may have noticed the fun quirk of the application in which the project time has an hour added to it by default:

This has always annoyed me while working on podcasts, as I don’t need the options and power that time synchronization offers. Thankfully, it’s easy to tell Logic to remove the leading hour by navigating in the menubar to File → Project Settings → Synchronization.

There, you can change the highlighted field from 01:00:00:00.00 to 00:00:00:00.00.

And boom: