Timezones

[dliciaga]

I have conference calls that I am posting events on and need to display the time in several timezones – EST, CST, MST, PST
How can this be accomplished?

[Barry]

Hi!

The first thing to do here is take a look at our Themer’s Guide which covers the basics of safely overriding and customizing our templates 🙂

From there it really depends on where exactly you want to implement this feature – if it’s to occur within actual event posts then you’ll probably be interested in setting up a custom tribe-events/single-event.php template (based on the main views/single-event.php template found in The Events Calendar’s plugin directory).

Some code like this should allow you to grab the existing time, change the timezone and display the result:

$starts_on = tribe_get_start_date( null, false, 'Y-m-d H:i:s' );
$source_tz = 'America/Los_Angeles';
$target_tz = array( 'America/Edmonton', 'America/New_York' );
$date_time = new DateTime( $starts_on, new DateTimeZone( $source_tz ) );

foreach ( $target_tz as $new_tz )
	echo $date_time->setTimezone( new DateTimeZone( $new_tz ) )->format( 'H:i (e)' );

You might position this just after the loop starts, which in the context of single-event.php is marked be these lines:

<?php while ( have_posts() ) :  the_post(); ?>
	<div id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>" <?php post_class(); ?>>

This is a relatively advanced customization so it’s something we’ll really need to leave in your hands in terms of ironing out the details – but I hope this gives you a few ideas that will help you to get started.

Good luck 🙂

[Barry]

Hi! It’s been a while so I’m going to go ahead and close this thread. If we can help with anything else, though, please don’t hesitate to create new threads as needed. Thanks!

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