RSS Feed Export to MailChimp is Not Matching Time Zone Thus Altering Date Shown

[Mary Fetterman]

Sometime in December we started seeing this issue with our RSS feed from our Events Calendar to Mailchimp. One of our websites is set on Chicago Time. When you view RSS feed source code it displays in Universal Time.

This is the rss feed: http://www.chicagoareayoga.com/feed/mailchimpEvents/?post_type=tribe_events&tribe_events_cat=eventworkshop This actually shows the correct time, however the source code shows Universal Time. view-source:http://www.chicagoareayoga.com/feed/mailchimpEvents/?post_type=tribe_events&tribe_events_cat=eventworkshop

For example, you see the source code here for the top event listed in our RSS feed– notice the publish Date is off by 5 hours.
<title>BLOOM YOGA STUDIO: 200-hour Teacher Training Info Session</title>
<link>http://www.chicagoareayoga.com/event/bloom-yoga-studio-200-hour-teacher-training-info-session-3/</link&gt;
<comments>Feb 8</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2017 00:15:00 +0000</pubDate>

When this is sent to our MailChimp campaign, events that are listed 7pm or after appear with the following day listed as the date.
We also have emails that are sent to the EST time zone and have the same issue with the feed.

We have tried changing the code above to a +5 or +6 in the pubDate to rectify, but it doesn’t quite match and any full day events are still displaying with the incorrect date

[Barry]

Not too sure this is one we can help you with, @myareayoga.

As I understand it, the use of +0000 (and effective requirement to use UTC) is non adjustable and hard-coded into WordPress itself.

There are certainly some avenues available to you to overcome this, but all re beyond the scope of support we can provide here, I’m afraid.

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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