diff -Nuar a/vendor/magento/module-catalog-staging/Observer/Category/Controller/Save/UnsetCustomDesignDates.php b/vendor/magento/module-catalog-staging/Observer/Category/Controller/Save/UnsetCustomDesignDates.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..c623550c177
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/magento/module-catalog-staging/Observer/Category/Controller/Save/UnsetCustomDesignDates.php
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Copyright © Magento, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ * See COPYING.txt for license details.
+ */
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+namespace Magento\CatalogStaging\Observer\Category\Controller\Save;
+
+use Magento\Framework\Event\Observer;
+use Magento\Framework\Event\ObserverInterface;
+use Magento\Framework\App\Request\Http as Request;
+
+/**
+ * Observer to unset custom design "Active From" and "Active To" field values in category save request
+ */
+class UnsetCustomDesignDates implements ObserverInterface
+{
+    private const FIELDS_TO_UNSET = [
+        'custom_design_from',
+        'custom_design_to',
+    ];
+
+    /**
+     * @inheritdoc
+     */
+    public function execute(Observer $observer): void
+    {
+        /** @var Request $request */
+        $request = $observer->getData('request');
+        $postValues = $request->getPostValue();
+        foreach (self::FIELDS_TO_UNSET as $field) {
+            unset($postValues[$field]);
+        }
+        $request->setPostValue($postValues);
+    }
+}
diff -Nuar a/vendor/magento/module-catalog-staging/Plugin/Model/Category.php b/vendor/magento/module-catalog-staging/Plugin/Model/Category.php
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b67ecd5f4eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/magento/module-catalog-staging/Plugin/Model/Category.php
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+<?php
+/**
+ * Copyright © Magento, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ * See COPYING.txt for license details.
+ */
+declare(strict_types=1);
+
+namespace Magento\CatalogStaging\Plugin\Model;
+
+use Magento\Catalog\Model\Category as CategoryModel;
+use Magento\Framework\Stdlib\DateTime;
+use Magento\Framework\Stdlib\DateTime\TimezoneInterface;
+
+/**
+ * Plugin to category model
+ */
+class Category
+{
+    /**
+     * @var TimezoneInterface
+     */
+    private $timezone;
+
+    /**
+     * @param TimezoneInterface $timezone
+     */
+    public function __construct(TimezoneInterface $timezone)
+    {
+        $this->timezone = $timezone;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Convert design dates to current time zone
+     *
+     * @param CategoryModel $category
+     * @param array $result
+     * @return array
+     * @SuppressWarnings(PHPMD.UnusedFormalParameter)
+     */
+    public function afterGetCustomDesignDate(CategoryModel $category, array $result): array
+    {
+        if (!empty($result['from'])) {
+            $result['from'] = $this->timezone->scopeDate(null, $result['from'], true)
+                ->format(DateTime::DATETIME_PHP_FORMAT);
+        }
+        if (!empty($result['to'])) {
+            $result['to'] = $this->timezone->scopeDate(null, $result['from'], true)
+                ->format(DateTime::DATETIME_PHP_FORMAT);
+        }
+
+        return $result;
+    }
+}
diff -Nuar a/vendor/magento/module-catalog-staging/etc/adminhtml/events.xml b/vendor/magento/module-catalog-staging/etc/adminhtml/events.xml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..9c8485022ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/magento/module-catalog-staging/etc/adminhtml/events.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!--
+/**
+ * Copyright © Magento, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ * See COPYING.txt for license details.
+ */
+-->
+<config xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="urn:magento:framework:Event/etc/events.xsd">
+    <event name="controller_action_predispatch_catalog_category_save">
+        <observer name="unsetCustomDesignDates" instance="Magento\CatalogStaging\Observer\Category\Controller\Save\UnsetCustomDesignDates" />
+    </event>
+</config>
diff -Nuar a/vendor/magento/module-catalog-staging/etc/di.xml b/vendor/magento/module-catalog-staging/etc/di.xml
index 1d2cc0f2128..388ef94a38b 100644
--- a/vendor/magento/module-catalog-staging/etc/di.xml
+++ b/vendor/magento/module-catalog-staging/etc/di.xml
@@ -379,4 +379,7 @@
             <argument name="versionManager" xsi:type="object">Magento\Staging\Model\VersionManager\Proxy</argument>
         </arguments>
     </type>
+    <type name="Magento\Catalog\Model\Category">
+        <plugin name="catalogStagingCategoryPlugin" type="Magento\CatalogStaging\Plugin\Model\Category"/>
+    </type>
 </config>