FB Event date & time incorrect in feed

Hello!

Thanks for the report. There could definitely be a possible timezone issue. Do you have any details about your timezones that you can share with me?

I will work on an update for you.

Thanks!
Richard

I am in America/New York Timezone and the FB event is in the same. TZ is set correctly in my WordPress theme. Server time has also been checked and is correct UTC.

Thanks for your help and the great plugin!

Regards,
Ron

Hey Ron!

Sorry for the late reply. I’m about to push out an update to correct your 2 reports.

The time problem was an interesting one. Due to how Facebook stores Event dates (if they were stored using it’s now-deprecated old format), the Time Zone information was not included. Thus, when outputting the times of the events, it was defaulting to using the timezone that your webserver has set (which was probably GMT, not EDT.) Anyways, this will be updated to use PST (Facebook time for legacy events) and, moving forward with new event data, will use the time zone the event time is stored in.

Anyways, that’s probably more than you wanted to know. Rest assured the fix will be available today.

Thanks for your time,
Richard

Hey Ron –

Will you download the most recent version, and let me know if you’re still having issues?

The update should be available soon – it has just been pushed out.

Thanks!
Richard

Hi Richard,

I just updated to v2.3.1 and unless there is some caching issue causing it to linger, the problem persists. The event that was scheduled for Oct. 12 at 8:30 pm still shows up as Sun Oct. 13.

Let me know if there is anything I can do on my side to help diagnose.

Thanks,
Ron

Ok, well back to the drawing board then. The issue was resolved on my end, but I see it still persisting on your site.

Unless you have some caching plugins on your site, I don’t know why there would be a delay in your output updating. Our feed updates on a 15 minute timer.

Thanks,
Richard

I do have WP Super Cache enabled, but after clearing the cache and even disabling the plugin, the result was unchanged. -Ron

Hey Ron!

Ok, if you grab 2.4 everything should be good to go.

Let me know if it takes care of your date problem.

Thanks!
Richard

Hi Richard,

The 2.4 update resolved the problem. Thanks for getting this fixed!

Looks like it also solved another problem I had noticed with image size when you click on a image in a post to see it full size.

Regards,
Ron