Recurring Events Not Working – Always the 1st

hi,

just to confirm, is this happening right after updating to the latest EM dev version 5.9.4.1 ?

I have this problem too – noticed after the last but one update but still happening with this one. Have posted separate thread this morning.

I’m not able to reproduce this myself, so any steps you provide if you can reliably reproduce this would be helpful. Also, if I could know the exact date ranges of the event, frequency, times etc. as well as the timezone of the event, your EM default timezone and your blog default timezone.

@patsky, replied same on your thread, I’m subscribed to both now so will get notified personally.

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Marcus (aka @msykes).

Steps:
Create a recurring event
Event repeats monthly every 1 month on the 4th Sunday of the month.
recurrences span from 07/20/2018 to 07/31/2019
each event spans 0 days
Events ended up being scheduled: 8/1/2018, 9/1/2018, 10/1/2018, etc.

Timezone of the recurring event: New York

EM Settings:
Enable time zone support: yes
Zone: New York

WP Settings:
General>Timezone: New York

Steps:
Create a recurring event
Event repeats monthly every 1 month on the 1st Sunday of the month.
recurrences span from 07/02/2018 to 01/06/2019
each event spans 0 days
Events ended up being scheduled: 8/1/2018, 9/1/2018, 10/1/2018, etc.

No Timezone

EM Settings:
Enable time zone support: no

WP Settings:
General>Timezone: London
General>Week Starts: Sunday

Notes: I have this issue on two sites – have tried with Timezone support enabled and disabled – no difference
Week starts on Sunday on one and Monday on the other – no difference either.

I have been using EM for over two years now on two non-profit sites – a church and a carers association and this was only noticed a couple of updates ago on the latter but can’t be sure about the version. I realise this is a free plugin but I don’t get paid for this either and unfortunately our groups have come very definitely to rely on this.

I’m nervous of deleting the plugin and reinstalling or overwriting with an earlier version, particularly on the church site as it has a large number of recurring events for the various services and masses although they were only entered for the year and I will be stuffed if I can’t get this sorted by Christmas! If there is a way of protecting all the existing entries then happy to try anything you suggest.

OK, so it turns out to be a PHP issue, not an EM bug, which is why we had such a hard time reproducing this, and also why some see it working on some sites and not on others. The issue specifically affects PHP versions 5.3 – 5.5.

If you’re running PHP 5, we recommend you run the latest version of that version because all other versions are already not supported anymore. However, we’ve fixed the issue anyway.

We’ve just release a new dev version 5.9.5.1 which has the fix. You can upgrade your site with a few clicks as per these instructions.

In case you’re interested, here’s a proof of concept which shows with regular PHP functions why this is not working as expected:

<?php
	echo "PHP Version is : ". phpversion().'<br>';
	$DateTime = new DateTime("2018-07-02");
	echo '<strong>$DateTime = new DateTime("2018-07-02");</strong><br>';
	echo '<strong>echo $EM_DateTime->format("Y-m-d");</strong><br>';
	echo $DateTime->format("Y-m-d");
	echo '<br><strong>$DateTime->modify(\'first day of this month\')->setDate( 2018, 7, 22 );</strong><br>';
	$DateTime->modify('first day of this month')->setDate( 2018, 7, 22 );
	echo '<strong>echo $DateTime->format("Y-m-d");</strong><br>';
	echo $DateTime->format('Y-m-d');
	die();

Paste this into a new .php file somewhere on your server and visit it directly and see the results.

@patsky, whilst I hope this resolves the issue and you don’t need to reinstall, FYI if you delete the plugin, no data gets deleted. Only if you go via EM > Settings > General > Admin Tools > Uninstall will it delete any data, and you get a confirmation asking you the same as well.

can you try and confirm using EM version 5.9.5? thanks

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by angelo_nwl.

New dev version 5.9.5.1 works!
Thanks for your thorough and fast work to solve the problem!

@angelo_nwl & @netweblogic yes it all works perfectly since the php version was identified as being the problem. Have now upgraded the plugin as well and all still good.

Thanks to everyone on these pages who contributed to identifying the problem.