Your Start Date returned no results. Please adjust your Start Date.

[cybersprout]

I’m trying to setup an import another installation of The Events Calendar but the search keeps saying the following:

Your Start Date returned no results. Please adjust your Start Date.

I’ve adjusted the start date all over the place with no luck.

iCal Feed (another The Events Calendar): http://explorealex.com/events/ical

[Cliff]

Hi. Thanks for the information.

I tried that URL in my local testing site’s iCal Importer and got the same result.

However, I tried importing my local testing site’s version of the URL you provided and it worked just fine.

As such, please follow our Testing for Conflicts Guide on your explorealex.com site and see if that helps narrow down the cause of this.

Let us know what you find out.

Thanks.

[Philip]

We are having the same problem. 2 sites with Events Calendar Pro. One with iCal Importer attempting to import from the other.

I believe I have narrowed down the problem to the following.

Events Calendar outputs DTSTART/DTEND with a timezone e.g.

DTSTART;TZID="UTC+0":20160301T020000
DTEND;TZID="UTC+0":20160301T150000

However the iCal parsing library in iCal Importer (iCalcreator) does not support this format.

The values are passed in to iCalDATEproperty::__construct('DTSTART', ';TZID="UTC+0":20160301T020000')
Which eventually calls iCalPropertyFactory::manageTheDATE_str(';TZID="UTC+0":20160301T150000'), which doesn’t know how to handle a date of that format so simply calls strtotime().

This results in events with dates such as 19700101T010000Z and so do not pass the start date search giving you the aforementioned error message.

• This reply was modified 10 years ago by Philip. Reason: Formatting

[Cliff]

Sorry for the late reply.

I tested several things on my local site after updating to the Latest Versions of all our plugins and could not recreate this issue.

I used your URL and imported 1 event and it imported fine: http://cl.ly/1q3U2h0O2T2S

Then I downloaded that .ics file to my hard drive, edited the first event to be “UTC+0”, then uploaded that .ics file to WordPress and used that uploaded file as the source of the input: http://cl.ly/272n0D443i12

So, please test with all our latest versions on all your sites and let me know if it’s still erroring out.

Thanks!

[cybersprout]

It is working great now! I deactivated all the plugins for explorealex.com and it started working. I wanted to hone in on the culprit but as I made it back to every plugin activated with it still working. I have a suspicion it is the Plugin Organizer. It appears to have reset after deactivating and reactivating.

[Cliff]

Interesting. Thanks for reporting back and for sharing your hunch!

I hope you enjoy iCal Importer for a long time 🙂

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