Problem With Google Pre-defined "Interesting" Calendars

You can set the timezone of your grouped calendar to the same as your site timezone. Does that maybe fix this issue?

I tried the Grouped calendar and had the timezone set to Events Source Default. The times are still in UTC, the New Year’s Day hover-over pop-up says that New Year’s Day begins at 6:00am and ends at 5:59am on January 3rd. This has the affect of adding six hours to the correct time of my timezone which is -6 UTC.

If I change the Simple Calendar timezone to Site Default (America/Chicago), the event times appear correct BUT Dec. 31 is showing both New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day as events and nothing at all appears on New Year’s Day.

If I change back to my calendar only and don’t use the Google holiday calendar, the December holidays appear but New Year’s Day is blank.

The Google calendar itself displays everything OK.

Also, not to complicate things, but I mentioned several times yesterday that I have a five-day, all-day event in my Google calendar on 12/28 through 1/1. It appears OK on 12/28-12/31 but, depending on the time zone I use in Simple Calendar, it may or may not appear on New Year’s Day or Jan. 2nd or both. Even using my calendar alone, the fifth day of this event does not appear on New Year’s Day but appears on Jan. 2nd.

Ok thanks for all the extra info here. Will be using this as a guide to test this out and narrow down the issue. Thanks!

Hi, Nick. I upgraded to 3.0.3 but I am still having the same issues.

If I create a grouped calendar with the Google USA Holidays calendar as one o f the calendars, all of the event times when I hover over an event are defaulting to UTC instead of my Google calendar/Wordpress default time of USA-Central/CST/Chicago time zone.

I am going to have to abandon use of the grouped calendar and manually enter holidays in my one single calendar.

Also, if I use my calendar alone, the five-day, all-day event that I have mentioned to you before still does not appear correctly. The event in question runs from Monday, Dec. 28 through Friday, Jan. 1. Five consecutive all-day events created with a single entry and appearing correctly in the Google calendar interface.

Using Simple Calendar 3.0.3, the four days in December appear OK but if I go to January, the final day of the event appears on Saturday, not Friday. This is the same behavior that occurred before the recent updates.

One more thing, Nick.

The above problem might have something to do with how Google Calendar and Simple Calendar handle the precise time of 12:00am.

I created an all-day event in Google calendar for January 1, 2016 and cleared the cache. It does not appear in Simple Calendar 3.0.3.

I then changed the time of that event to 12:00am-11:59pm on 1//1/2016 and cleared the cache. It still did not appear in Simple Calendar.

I then changed the time to 12:01am-11:59pm, cleared the cache, and NOW it appears in Simple Calendar on 1/1/2016.

I’m deducing the problem may have to do with midnight. Google might consider midnight to be the current day and Simple Calendar considers midnight to be the next day?

Does this change if you change the timezone of your calendar to “Site Default” or “Custom” instead of using the default “Event Source”?

Assuming this has been resolved since there has not been a reply here. Let us know if you have any other questions.

Thanks!

I hard-coded calendar changes in Google to “force” WP Calendar to work. Though I’ve had the latest version of WP Calendar, I haven’t “uncoded” the Google calendar. I will test out the new version as new all-day events occur.