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Jason
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February 3, 2016 at 9:37 am
Hi,
I started using the new [ICAL_LINK_*] shortcode and it is working fine except for events that happen after the daylight savings time switch in March they have the wrong offset when added to a calendar. I have two events that are both set to 6:30pm on the event page but the one in March gets added to the calendar as 7:30.
I am set to timezone of “New York” in WordPress settings.
$ curl -s "https://cbuswaw.com/?ee=download_ics_file&ics_id=5" | grep START
DTSTART:20160217T233000Z
$ curl -s "https://cbuswaw.com/?ee=download_ics_file&ics_id=6" | grep START
DTSTART:20160316T233000Z
Thanks,
Jason
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Josh
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February 3, 2016 at 6:38 pm
Hi Jason,
That’s really interesting, and what’s also interesting is I checked our testing server and got different results where the event times have the offset. Here’s the results I got when comparing this event and this other event:
$ curl -s "http://ee4m.eventespresso.com?ee=download_ics_file&ics_id=327" | grep START
DTSTART:20160217T233000Z
$ curl -s "http://ee4m.eventespresso.com?ee=download_ics_file&ics_id=328" | grep START
DTSTART:20160316T223000Z
Do you happen to know or can you check to see if there are any active plugins on your site that use date_default_timezone_set()?
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Jason
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February 4, 2016 at 7:50 am
Hi Josh,
It’s working for me now, though I’m not sure why. I did have several plugins with date_default_timezone_set(), and after deactivated & reactivating those I noticed the March event in the admin was now showing 7:30pm instead of 6:30pm. I’m not sure if it was because of the plugin deactivation & reactiviation (plugins were google-analytics-for-wordpress w3-total-cache wordpress-seo backupbuddy) or if there was maybe a caching issue?
Before contacting you the first time I had original had UTC-5 set as the timezone (not New York), and I had changed it to New York but that hadn’t fixed the issue. Maybe w3tc or something else was caching the UTC-5 offset?
In any case, it seems fine now, thank you!
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Josh
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February 4, 2016 at 8:03 am
You might find that you’ll need to remove any instances of date_default_timezone_set() from your site. There’s a good explanation why in this developer documentation article from vip.wordpress.com:
https://vip.wordpress.com/documentation/vip-development-tips-tricks/use-current_time-not-date_default_timezone_set/
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