Month calendar highlighting wrong current day (solved)

[Mark Alderton]

Hello, we discovered this issue and resolved it (to our knowledge) as follows…and hoping now that MT staff can either confirm or deny the accuracy of our findings.

Issue: When viewing the front end of our current month calendar, the wrong current day is highlighted on screen. Yesterday is incorrectly highlighted. But this is only happening in Internet Explorer, Safari and Moz.Firefox to our knowledge. However, Chrome browser shows correctly. Did not test other browsers.

We’ve searched on this topic in MT forums and found only this related thread (now closed):

Today's Date on Calendar is showing wrong day!

But that thread does not overtly mention UTC timezone settings nor the cross browser incompatibility that we experienced.

We examined our WordPress timezone setting in Settings>General, which was correctly set to ‘Los Angeles.’ Our date and time displayed correctly for all other website functions.

We then changed our timezone setting to UTC-8, the alternative option for the Los Angeles timezone. This then resolved our calendar’s highlighting of the current day across all browsers mentioned above. (Please note – This also required deleting cache files on both the server side and browser side to see an accurate result.)

[Cliff]

Hi Mark. Thanks for the details.

I tested Chrome, Firefox, and Safari on my Mac and didn’t notice any difference in the day highlighted.

I tested with my WordPress timezone set to Chicago, and I tested right before midnight (when I’d figure it to be more likely to have a wrong day highlighted) and it worked fine in all 3 browsers.

Please make sure you have the latest versions of all your browsers and of our free/core plugin and all our add-ons that you’re using.

Please also clear your browser cache.

If you still continue experiencing this issue, could you try temporarily activating the default Twenty Fifteen theme and seeing if the issue persists?

If disabling the theme fixes it, we have narrowed the issue down to a theme conflict. Do you have any theme overrides for the Events Calendar? If so could you try disabling them by renaming your [themename]/tribe-events/ folder to ‘tribe-events-bak’. Did that fix it?

If the issue persists in the default Twenty Fifteen theme, then we have a different set of debugging steps. Please keep the Twenty Fifteen theme enabled, and also disable any plugins other than the ones from Modern Tribe to see if that fixes it. If it does, please try re-enabling the plugins one at a time until the issue resurfaces. When it does resurface, can you let me know which plugin caused that to happen?

[Support Droid]

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