Displaying times according to user TZ

I would think that some sort of meeting scheduler plugin would do this.

I believe Google Calendar automatically does this. E.g., If you create a Google Calendar event, then share that calendar with someone else in a different time zone it will show the event time the way you wish.

There is, I believe, a plugin called something like Events Calendar. I would think that it should do what you want.

Thanks for reporting the problem with the form on my website. I’ll have to fix that.

Hi,

Thanks for your prompt response. 

I think I have found a solution using a short code to take a date string (with a specified TZ) and redisplay it using the current TZ (using your plugin to set the client TZ).

However, I got someone in Chicago to test it but they saw the time as GMT not CST as I’d have expected. If I test it here I get ‘Europe/London’ as TZ using Arc Browser but ‘GMT’ using Safari. My Chicago friend also uses a Mac so I’m wondering if it’s Safari not passing on the info you need. Is this something you have experienced?

I have a test page at https://encounterevents.uk/test-page/ and wonder what time you see.

I see ‘This event is at “11:00 AM 1/6/23 CST” or 5:00 PM, 6 Jan 2023 (GMT)’ at the link you posted. (My time zone is EDT.)

JavaScript must be working in the browser. I have, however, not tested using Safari. But I suspect it should work.

That’s very odd as it’s not picking up your TZ. Is there any way I can debug it or see what is happening?

If you are familiar with PHP, you could go to the use-clients-timezone-class.inc.php file and add output (echo) statements at appropriate places in the code.

There is also the possibility that removing the comment out “//”s from all the places having to do with “uctz_use_for_admin” and the like would enable you to have a setting in the control panel which would make more information available. (I make this statement after a quick scan of the code. I wrote this more than a decade ago. So I’m no longer sure what those comment out-ed bits of code did. But I reckon I had them there for debugging.)

If you’re not able to do this, I can see what I can find. It may, however, take me a few days to get to it.

I’m going to be away for the next two weeks and the code looks beyond my knowledge so if you can take a look I’d appreciate it. Once I’m back I can help debug as it seems to work for me in Arc Browser (displaying ‘Europe/London’ as my TZ) but not in Safari (displaying ‘GMT’, the server TZ).

I can’t find a way to duplicate your test and, therefore, how the Use Client’s Time Zone plugin can work with it.

Here is the code for my shortcode

‘/**

• The [date] shortcode.
  *
• Accepts a date and displays it with the current TZ
  *
• @param array $atts Shortcode attributes. Default empty.
• @param string $content Shortcode content. Default null.
• @param string $tag Shortcode tag (name). Default empty.
• @return string Shortcode output.
  */
  function date_shortcode( $atts = [], $content = null, $tag = ” ) {
  // override default attributes with user attributes
  $atts = shortcode_atts(
  array(
  ‘date’ => date(“h:i A d F Y”),
  ), $atts, $tag
  ); $date=$atts['date']; $o = '<span class="event-date">'.date("g:i A, j M Y (e)", strtotime("$date")).'</span>'; // $o= $o . "<br>Input date: $date";
• return $o; }

add_shortcode( ‘date’, ‘date_shortcode’ );’

And the test page (implemented at https://encounterevents.uk/test-page/) is

‘This event is at “11:00 AM 1/6/23 CST” or [date date=”11:00 AM 1/6/23 CST” ]’

I looked at the code and I can’t see why it’s not working as expected. I am wondering if the JS function you call isn’t working. I took a look at that, too, but it’s way beyond me. Or, of course, it could be (and perhaps more probably is) a bug in my code that I can’t see.

Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

• This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by anotheruserhere.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by anotheruserhere.

It may take me a couple of days to sort this out, since the next few days are full of other tasks to be done. Sorry. ??

I cannot get your code for your shortcode to work. Perhaps you need to get someone else to diagnose this problem. Sorry. ??