Timezone issue

Hi Alex,

Server time zone should be always set to UTC. If it’s not UTC, you will have problems with many applications. I’m confident yours is and WordPress sets an offset according to your setting in general options as it normally would.

So, can I have a link to your website and the id of the calendar you’re trying to use?

thank you

Hi Fulvio,

Thanks for your reply.

One of the pages with this issue is this:

https://victoriahighlandgames.com/games/gce_feed/glasgow-green-day-3/

When I say the “server timezone”, I’m referring to the timezone setting done through php.ini and retrieved through phpinfo(). It is set to “America/Vancouver” (this was already set as “Pacific/Los Angeles” from the start).

I set both the WordPress timezone and the Google Calendar timezone.

Did you mean that I would have to change these dates?

this is the answer from Google:

https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/victoriahighlandgames.com_gufqo1j93tv68t1v0qb840p9s4@group.calendar.google.com/events?key=AIzaSyAssdKVved1mPVY0UJCrx96OUOF9u17AuY&timeMin=2016-05-23T00%3A00%3A00%2B00%3A00&timeMax=2016-05-23T23%3A59%3A59%2B00%3A00&maxResults=2500&singleEvents=true

and those dates are printed on your calendar

In WordPress general settings, you can leave the timezone of your blog – which should be accurate to display your blog post dates right

On each calendar feed, you can choose to base your calendars on the calendar feed timezone, or adjust the calendar events date-time according to your site timezone. In Google, you have two places where you can set a timezone. One is the Google account general timezone (default timezone). Then you can have multiple calendar feeds in Google using this timezone or one set manually.

Set the events on your Google Calendar according to the Google Calendar timezone as you would do normally. Have WordPress use its own timezone (which may or may not match the one of used on your Google Calendar feed), then on the feed settings set ‘use calendar’ for timezone. This, unless you want to convert the calendar feed timezone to WordPress time (for example if your readers want to know the time of an event somewhere else in your blog local time – e.g. a football match, a live webcast, and so on).

About your server – as far as I know it’s best to have the server use UTC and then have your application modify the time – WordPress should do this for you. If you run var_dump( date_default_timezone_get() ); ideally you should get UTC.

One last thing – if from your site someone clicks a ‘read more’ link from an event to go into Google Calendar app webpage, Google will try to adjust timezones according to the viewer. If you are using ‘use site’ it should pass a variable to adjust the timezone according to that and Google should comply.

Thanks Fulvio but I’m still lost on this…

Everything is as you mentioned above:

– wordpress general settings in the timezone of my blog
– google general timezone and specific calendar timezone are the same as wordpress timezone
– server uses UTC
– feed settings use “Calendar” timezone.

Yet, the result itself doesn’t make sense. As you noticed from google JSON answer, it brings back two events, one on the 22nd and another on the 23rd. The problem is that I’m asking only for the 23rd.

Here are the feed settings:

Timezone: Calendar default (although I tried with Site Default to no avail)
Search Query: (blank)
Expand Recurring Events? Checked
Multiple Day Events: Unchecked
Display mode: Custom Date Range (list)
Use Custom Date Range: 05/23/2016 to 05/23/2016
Show Tooltips: checked
Date Format: Y-m-d
Time Format: H:i:s
Cache Duration: 43200 (I clear cache after each change, just to be sure…)

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Alex

sorry for let you wait Alex

maybe this is a bug

perhaps later today I will send an update that might help fix that

Hi Alex, can you try the new version 2.3.0 it should better address some timezone cases

Thanks but the issue is still there for me. I cleared the cache on the feed and called it again, but it’s still giving me GG21 from May 22nd. You can see it at the same URL I gave you before:

https://victoriahighlandgames.com/games/gce_feed/glasgow-green-day-3/

I actually “solved” this problem through jQuery by simply removing ($.remove()) any items that didn’t belong in the list.

The project itself is much more complex and the end result can be seen here: (https://victoriahighlandgames.com/games/schedule/). It takes various feeds (each column is a different feed) and builds a table using jQuery and CSS. I don’t know if it is the “proper” way of doing it, but it’s working…

Thanks again,
Alex