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Paul Pehrson
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August 20, 2013 at 3:03 pm
I’ve read everything I can find on time zones, but I can’t seem to pin this one down, so if somebody could help me understand this concept, I’d really appreciate it.
I’m setting up Event Espresso for webinars, and I may have registrants from all over North America (in any time zone) who may want to attend one of the live webinars.
I’m in Mountain Time Zone, so in WordPress settings, I set my time to Denver. On my event registration pages, I enter the start/end/registration times in Mountain Time.
How do my potential customers know what time the webinar will be in THEIR time zone? I can’t see any place that it tells them what time zone is being used for the event start time. All I see is (for example) 5:00 pm. That is what I expect to see, since that is the correct start time (in the Mountain time zone). What do other people see? How do I make sure it is abundantly clear what time zone is being referenced?
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Dean
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August 21, 2013 at 2:08 am
Hi Paul,
The timezones are set for your locality, and that is what the user will see. For example on your site, most of your events start at 5-6pm, though for me it should read 3-4am (approx) as I am over in Europe.
There really isn’t a way to amend the timezone to display to the users timezone.
You could use a custom function/plugin so it loads some additional jQuery such as this http://pellepim.bitbucket.org/jstz/ to detect the users time zone and modify the event time accordingly. Of course you would need to check how accurate it is as I have never used it, and also have something in place for those without javascript.
Or, much more simply, you could add a note to the event description advising times are in MST.
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Paul Pehrson
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August 22, 2013 at 11:57 am
Thanks. I don’t want to add the note to the event description, because then I have to remember to include it for all events. I wish I could just tell EE to DISPLAY the time zone next to the “event time” field on the registration form. An additional bonus would be an integration with timeanddate.com that would be a link to timeanddate like this: http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Webinar&iso=20130823T17&p1=220&ah=1
I guess I just want the time zone to be obvious, where now it isn’t.
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Dean
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August 23, 2013 at 12:12 am
Well you could modify the event_list_display.php and/or the registration_page_display.php files to add in MST after the date or a link to the site you mentioned.
For example here http://d.pr/i/2EyV, I just added the following after the date section in the event_list_display.php file.
<span>MST</span> <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Webinar&iso=20130823T17&p1=220&ah=1">In your time</a>
Remember that if you modify these files it is recommended to copy them to wp-content/uploads/espresso/templates first and edit them there. You will also need to copy registration_page.php and event_list.php files over even if you are not modifying then as the files are linked.
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