{"id":1167173,"date":"2016-09-21T15:37:29","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T22:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/timezones-not-getting-applied-correctly-for-the-event-locations\/"},"modified":"2016-09-21T15:37:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T22:37:29","slug":"timezones-not-getting-applied-correctly-for-the-event-locations","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/timezones-not-getting-applied-correctly-for-the-event-locations\/","title":{"rendered":"Timezones not getting applied correctly for the event locations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Events Calendar has an option for &#8220;Use local timezones for each event&#8221;, which as I understand it means that the timezone should be set for the timezone for where an event is hosted, right? On our staging site (http:\/\/hikeitnew.staging.wpengine.com\/find-a-hike\/submit-a-hike\/add), I&#8217;ve enabled this option, but that data doesn&#8217;t seem to be saved properly. Our site includes a modified template of Community Events, so we&#8217;re not asking people to specifically state the timezone, as we thought it would be generated from the event location. <\/p>\n<p>If this isn&#8217;t how it&#8217;s supposed to work, could you please explain that? Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read over the documentation at https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/knowledgebase\/working-with-timezones\/ and it just doesn&#8217;t address this well enough when using Community Events.<\/p>\n<p>In order to test out the functionality, I created a brand new site with only events calendar plugins and the Twenty Sixteen theme.<br \/>\nYou can create a hike here: http:\/\/americanhiking.wpengine.com\/events\/community\/add\/<br \/>\nand you can see at this hike, http:\/\/americanhiking.wpengine.com\/event\/another-michigan-hike\/, that since I didn&#8217;t specify a timezone it&#8217;s just showing up as UTC+0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1167173","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Timezones not getting applied correctly for the event locations -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/timezones-not-getting-applied-correctly-for-the-event-locations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Timezones not getting applied correctly for the event locations -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Events Calendar has an option for &#8220;Use local timezones for each event&#8221;, which as I understand it means that the timezone should be set for the timezone for where an event is hosted, right? 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