[simple_gcal widget] Date is displayed in UTC, not according to Timezone

When rendering the day, if the source calendar appointment has a time specified, the date is selected from the PHP default timezone, which in WordPress is always set to UTC – for in their wisdom WordPress prefers to adjust the time offset itself.

The Simple Google Calendar Widget makes use of the PHP function strtotime, which as far as I can tell would normally handle timezone conversion itself.

In order to correct this issue for our site, although I am certainly no developer – I made some changes to the constructor to set the PHP timezone, and added a destructor to undo this in simple_gcal.php so as not upset other WordPress functions later.

I am not sure if this is the cleanest solution, and certainly these changes would be lost if there were any updates received for the plug-in.

I would appreciate a fix to be incorporated into this plugin in a future release.

Kind regards,
Craig.

This is a hack, not a fix:

class Simple_Gcal_Widget extends WP_Widget
{

    public function __construct()
    {
        // load our textdomain
        load_plugin_textdomain('simple_gcal', false, basename( dirname( __FILE__ ) ) . '/languages' );
        // Begin DATE HACK
        date_default_timezone_set("Pacific/Auckland");
        // End of DATE HACK
        parent::__construct('Simple_Gcal_Widget', 'Simple Google Calendar Widget', array('description' => __('Displays events from a public Google Calendar', 'simple_gcal')));
    }

    // Begin DATE HACK
    public function __destruct()
    {
	date_default_timezone_set("UTC");
    }
    // End of DATE HACK

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