Google Calendar Times off by 2 hours

Hi WrightBrain,

I hope I understood your problem: you add an event in your Google Calendar, but it only shows up in your WordPress Calendar feed a couple of hours later?

In this case I think that is just related to cache – there’s an intended lag between Google Calendar and when a feed is refreshed, for performance reasons. You can tweak this setting in your feed by visiting editing the Calendar feed in WordPress and putting a lower value in Cache Duration setting at the bottom.

Or you actually meant that there’s an offset of 2 hours between the time you have set in your Calendar on Google and the time it shows on your WordPress?

Sorry I wasn’t clear. I meant that there is an offset in the time. So on Google itself, the time start is at 6 and time end is at 8, and on the WordPress site the time start is at 8 and the time end is at 10.

Any ideas on how to fix this issue?

Does it happen for all the events or specific ones?

could you try setting your timezone in the WordPress preferences with UTC+X format, according to your timezone, and not using the verbose setting ie. America/Denver (example)?

For all events from August onward. For some reason, July seems to be fine. The timezone setting in WordPress is already UTC+X format. The timezone on Google is in GMT, although I’m not sure if I can change that to the UTC format.

Oh I see. This is a bit odd indeed. I’m thinking whether the issue is actually from the feed. Would you mind posting a link to the calendar feed? Perhaps it’s what Google is feeding to WordPress that has an offset?

The google calendar ID is: [email protected]

The calendar on WordPress is here:
https://www.mysaintmiriam.org/wp/calendars/

I see

by any chance are you using a custom date and time format in the feed settings?

No. I’m using the simple settings on the plugin.

What’s odd too, is that I’ve been using this plugin for 6 months, and this is the first time this problem has cropped up.

I’m still on this one

I wonder if there were any changes with the Google API (they changed from 2 to 3 a bit more than 6 months ago)

Anyway it seems really having to do with timezones – set individually for the events from August onward – have you tried tweaking the Google timezones just for those? (perhaps even changing the timezone and setting it back it will refresh the feed)

In the meanwhile I will look for other solutions.

thanks for your patience with this

That’s possible. Especially since it worked before and neither you nor I made any changes. I’ll try what you suggested later today and keep you posted.

I just tried it. I specified the timezone on 1 event, updated the google calendar. Then back on WordPress I cleared the feed cache, and there was no change. I also cleared my web browser cache and the events are still showing times of 2 hours later than specified.

I have other WordPress websites (and calendars), so I’ll try loading the plugin and see if I can come up with the same error.

ok, going to release an update soon – I don’t think there’s anything introduced that changes that but let’s keep each other posted

hey WrightBrain, after 2.2.6 release did you notice any change?