Date/time errors in events

Same here.

Add’l info:
The Events Calendar 5.1.6
Wordpress timezone (Settings => General => Timezone) is set to Europe/Berlin
timedatectl status (host OS: CentOS) is also saying Europe/Berlin
[root:~] ls -l /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 35 6. Sep 22:14 /etc/localtime -> ../usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin

I created an event for next sunday, Sep 13, 10 to 17h

Strangely in backend database I find for that particular event:

MariaDB > select * from wp_postmeta where post_id=9094 and meta_key like “_Event%”;
+———+———+————————+———————+
| meta_id | post_id | meta_key | meta_value |
+———+———+————————+———————+
| 54669 | 9094 | _EventOrigin | events-calendar |
| 54689 | 9094 | _EventShowMapLink | 1 |
| 54690 | 9094 | _EventShowMap | 1 |
| 54691 | 9094 | _EventStartDate | 2020-09-13 10:00:00 |
| 54692 | 9094 | _EventEndDate | 2020-09-13 17:00:00 |
| 54693 | 9094 | _EventStartDateUTC | 2020-09-13 10:00:00 |
| 54694 | 9094 | _EventEndDateUTC | 2020-09-13 17:00:00 |
| 54695 | 9094 | _EventDuration | 25200 |
| 54696 | 9094 | _EventCurrencySymbol | |
| 54697 | 9094 | _EventCurrencyPosition | prefix |
| 54698 | 9094 | _EventCost | |
| 54699 | 9094 | _EventURL | |
| 54700 | 9094 | _EventTimezone | Europe/Berlin |
| 54701 | 9094 | _EventTimezoneAbbr | CEST |
+———+———+————————+———————+
14 rows in set (0.001 sec)

This seems to say, that the event starts at both 10h UTC and Europe/Berlin (CEST), which is wrong.

If I preview the above event its from 8h to 15h. If I output timezone, it adds CEST.

Ok, found the issue. It was a misconfiguration on the host OS. Problem was, that /usr/share/timezone/UTC was identical to /usr/share/timezone/Europe/Berlin, which meant, that the system had UTC = Europe/Berlin.

The fix was to re-install Linux package tzdata, which fixed the issue.

Glad to hear that you were able to resolve this issue!

I’m going to mark this thread as Resolved but feel free to open up a new one if anything else comes up.

Have a wonderful day!

Thanks,
Jaime