Time Zones

Hi @abbimedia,

At the moment we don’t have an option for this as it just hasn’t been requested before. As you are free user of the user, I will take this on as a feature suggestion.

You can change this by overriding our plugin code, specifically the script.js file at line 24, and changing the timezone variable to a named timezone like timeZone: ‘America/New_York’, instead of: timezone: ‘local’,

Or you could create a custom shortcode. If you get the pro version, I am happy to provide an option to do this without any changes on your end.

Thanks,

Hey, thanks for the quick reply. I imagine we’ll be upgrading to the pro version as the client has indicated they want to show recorded webinars on the page once they have some. I tried changing the time zone in script.js as you suggested but no matter what I put there it seemed to display the time in GMT. I tried several variations of ‘America/Chicago’ all with the same results. I’ll take another run at it.

Hi @abbimedia,

Ok that is strange, could it possibly be caching?

Hi, I don’t believe its a cache issue. The page is excluded from the site cache and changes immediately upon editing the script.js file. I also cleared the plugin’s cache. When I change ‘local’ to any timezone , the calendar on the page immediately displays the time in UTC. When I change it back to ‘local’ it shows the local time as expected. I’ve tried different time zones, with and without capitalization, with single and double quotes, adding brackets and parentheses, all with the same result. Not sure what else to try. Unrelated… your AutoSocial plugin is very cool. we’re recommending it to a couple of our other clients.

        locale: wordpressLocale.substr(0,2),
        //timezone: 'local',
        timezone: 'America/Chicago',
        timeFormat: calendarDateFormat,

I am not entirely sure sorry. I tried it on my end with changing the timezone this way and it worked ok.