The Events Calendar

Just reporting back. The fix worked but the module would not move to the next event until after the end time of current event. For example if an event started at 8am and ended at 1pm and another started at 9am and ended at 2pm, the 9am event would never make it as “next event.” After a few weeks, that corrected itself and end time has no effect on next event. Now the 9am event will become the next event after 8am and before 9am. Maybe it was the last tec update several days ago?

Thanks

I had thought it may have been a tz issue and fiddled with that. The events are imported from a source (meetup.com) that uses UTC offset. If I use location (Los Angeles) the event times are 7 hours off (so is the calendar with “tomorrow” coming 7 hours early). The problem with using utc in wp is that it needs to be manually changed to utc-8 at end of daylight saving time, which I will have to do when time comes. TEC tz is set to manual.

I’ve created a test event and still having the same issue

When all plugins are deactivated, except TEC and APM, the issue still exists

home page, lower right — like in church demo. Its currently blank for some reason

Yep, and TEC is up to date. It started after I migrated site to a new server. Site is on php v7.2. I was hoping it would just go away after a few events cycled through, but “top” events created post migration are being skipped

Thanks. Its showing and I was able to put it into other content areas with custom upload

I was able to fix it. I renamed the child functions.php and some of the site came back — enough to get me into admin. I reactivated plugins and just about everything came back…..except for my events countdown element — there was no data. I put the child functions.php back and site still works but events countdown still blank as you can see in bottom right corner here: https://www.hikingwithdean.com/

(all plugins and theme is up to date — could it be related to previous issue from a couple weeks ago?)

Its back….don’t you love it when users resolve their own tickets?

• This reply was modified 5 years, 6 months ago by compudean. Reason: issue resolved

I think you found it. I moved the time forward to 8:30 and the 7hr dif was still there. I cleared my browser cache and countdown became correct. I removed the test event and the next one in line has correct countdown :)

Strange that browser cache had incorrect tz. Recall from my early posts that I had wp set to UTC when the import plugin was not managing tz correctly. I wonder if wp caches that. I’ll do some research on that for completion sake.

Never thought that browser cache includes tz info. When I get back to office Monday I’ll clear cache there and see if solution repeats. Good job. Sorry I put you through all that after solution turned out so simple Thanks!

I created a 5pm event around 3:40 PDT and here it is….still getting 7 hour error

To create event, I just added title, dummy text and time. Nothing else was touched. I tried uncategorized vs categorized with no change.

The list of events is squashed due to added columns. Its not much noticeable with a wide screen. Yoast put some there I can get rid of

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by compudean.

All the events have the correct time zone when imported. As stated at beginning, when timezones were imported as UTC the counter appeared correct. But that is because the timezone was incorrect. Note I am saying “timezone” here, not the numerical time

Here is screen shot after your post. I noticed that the tz was set to utc-7 on this event (did you do that?)

Before the meetup import fix I would need to set wp timezone to UTC and hide the timezone label. The time would have shown as 5:00 pm [“UTC” hidden] and counter would show correct hours. Now that meetup event is imported correctly (all of them are Los Angeles or UTC-7 = PDT) the counter is 7 hours off.

It seems that the Event Countdown element is seeing the Event timezone as UTC when event is correctly set as Los Angeles (or UTC-7).

On the other hand, I realize that the meetup import plugin might be “faking? the timezone? Later today I will create some test events manually and see if countdown is correct — that may tell us the import plugin is doing something unknown to counter?

Sounds interesting. Thanks!

• This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by compudean.

I changed the page layout to satisfy things such that I have one ALB element for wp blog posts and using shortcode in sidebar for Tribe Events.

But I am still curious about solution for the problem (if its easy)