Problems with timezones in Facebook Events? Read this

[Rob]

Over at his blog, our own support guru Barry Hughes published a post this weekend that overlaps nicely with the work he’s doing for us at Modern Tribe. It focused on a point of frustration we’ve been seeing here on the forum, where — for sites in timezones outside of Pacific time — imported events show an incorrect hour offset. Barry writes:

When you create a new event Facebook will intelligently determine what the timezone should be. Of course, it can only do this if it has a valid address to work with. If for some reason it can’t then you may be interested to know that you can clear the place automatically inserted in the Where field and enter a new location, giving you an opportunity to play around with different addresses until you create one that Facebook recognises.

By exercising control over the timezone in this way you should be able to import events into The Events Calendar without any timezone issues. If for some reason you are still hitting a wall then an alternative solution is available that offsets the imported time by a number of hours programmatically.

The post isn’t too long, and is clearly written with screenshots…it’d probably be worth your time if you’re encountering the core issue. Check out the full post.

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