Hey Nakturnal,
Definitely, please update the plugin before proceeding with any support questions or issues, since a lot of things get cleared out between versions, and 2.0.3 specifically fixed many bugs and issues. You don’t need to touch the ‘events’ folder in your theme when you upgrade. All of your “customizations” within that folder should remain without any issues.
As for the timezone issue, this sounds like something at the server level – basically your server is overwriting the timezone set in your WP settings; I’ve seen this happen on some servers in the past. Two things you can try here:
— Manually set the timezone in your functions.php file (in your theme) using the date_default_timezone_set() php function, you’ll need to refer to PHP list of timezones, here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/timezones.php. You mentioned you were in New York, so your function should look something like this (again in functions.php): https://gist.github.com/1765112
— Contact your hosting provider and ask them to switch the timezone on your server.
So to sum up: please update first, then try to change the timezone, and if you”re still having issues or have any questions along the way, let us know!
Thanks
Joey