Show event time in website visitor's local time

  • Resolved 1earthsangha

    (@1earthsangha)


    9 years, 4 months ago

    Perhaps I’m misunderstanding the intent of your calculator. My need is simple, just show the time for an event in the website visitor’s local time. The visitor is likely not a wordpress user. I don’t need a list of timezones, just the one that applies to the visitor where they are. Here’s the short code that I’m using but it always shows the time in UTC.

    [timezonecalculator_output query_time=”Sun, 13 Sep 2015 14:30:00″ query_timezone=”America/New_York”]
    Result: 2015-09-13 06:30 pm UTC
    Because I’m in the New York timezone, expected Result: 2015-09-13 02:30 pm America/New York

    I’ve tried many different settings on the admin options to no avail.

    Thank you for any help.
    Kristin

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/timezonecalculator/

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  • Plugin Author Bernhard Riedl

    (@neoxx)

    Hi Kristin,

    Guessing the user’s timezone could be quite challenging and might not deliver accurate results, for example if the user’s connected via a VPN or Proxy Server. Anyway, afaik, there are some databases on the Internet to map IPs with timezones, but I haven’t tested any of them, though I would only use them to suggest a timezone, for example like Google does with their calendar.

    If you want to make sure that you get the user’s timezone right, I recommend to ask via a select – as it’s done in WordPress Admin Menu, page ‘Settings/General’ – or use a text-input with a datalist-field to store the user’s choice in a cookie. It’s then possible to use TimeZoneCalculator to output either the current time or a specific timestamp (e.g. start-date of event) for an anonymous / non WordPress user in her/his timezone.

    Regarding your example, I think you got the query_timezone and timezones attributes mixed up. – Please have a look at the Other Notes section for detailed information.

    Here’s your example with two timezones,

    [timezonecalculator_output query_time="Sun, 13 Sep 2015 14:30:00" query_timezone="America/New_York" timezones="America/New_York\nEurope/Vienna"]

    … and that’s how you can setup a shortcode for a current timestamp in a specific timezone if you don’t want to use the selection of TimeZoneCalculator’s settings-page.

    [timezonecalculator_output timezones="America/New_York"]

    Hope that helps.

    My Best,
    Berny

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