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Gary, thank you for your reply. In all honesty, I think that I don’t understand the purpose of the indent, so disregard my observation and comment. I have never tried to indent the first item in a list, but discovered its behavior as I was playing with the new block format and editor. From what you said, it is working as designed so I clearly don’t understand its intended use. Thank you again for your reply and have a wonder Holiday Season.

Phil, after further testing, I now understand what the List calendar is doing. I didn’t quite understand it before. You might already know this, but I want to make sure you do.

Problem: the highlight for Today’s event in the LIST view calendar focuses on Tomorrow’s event from midnight until 8:00 a.m.

With the latest version 3.1.9, the Upcoming Events calendar (LIST) now shows Today’s event, but does not highlight it until after 8 a.m. on the day of the event. When events are scheduled for consecutive days (one for Today and another for Tomorrow) Tomorrow’s event will become highlighted from midnight until 8 a.m. even though Today’s event is listed first. Today’s event becomes highlighted after 8 a.m. and remains highlighted until midnight. If there is no event scheduled for Tomorrow, no event will be highlighted during that 8-hour period, even though there is an event scheduled for the Day After Tomorrow or beyond. This behavior occurs for both types of events (all-day or timed events) and is repeatable. The GRID calendar continues to work correctly, advancing and highlighting as it should.

I hope this helps.

Thank you, Phil, for trying. Not sure what else I can do, but will think on it. At least its behavior is consistent. It has to be a time thing, but what do I know.

Happiest of Holidays!

Phil, thank you so much for following up on this pesky issue. I think you’re half-way there.

In List View, Today’s event for full-day events in Google calendar now appears on the day of the event, but the date bar fails to highlight by 8 hours, as previously reported.

I upgraded Simple Calendar to ver 3.1.9 on December 9, 2016 around 10 pm. At that time, there were no events in our Google calendar for Dec 9th, but one for Dec 10th. Thus, the Dec 10th event was the first event listed, as it should.

After midnight, the calendar continued to show December 10th event (now Today’s event) as it should, but did not highlight date bar. The date bar became highlighted at 8:01 a.m., and I am assuming it will remain that way until midnight.

The test calendar (https://explorenorthcoast.net/testing-sidebar-calendar/) behaves the same way. The date bar did not become highlighted until 8:01 a.m. At 8:10 a.m. on Dec 10, I added an event for Dec 9th just to see what it would do. It listed the Dec 9th event before the Dec 10th event as it should (different start date), and highlighted the Dec 10th date bar, as is should. But, again, this is happening 8 hours past midnight when the date bar first becomes highlighted. I have since removed that test event, so it no longer appears.

I will be gone today, but am anxious to continue trouble-shooting with you, if you want. Just let me know what I can do from my side. Thanks!!!

Running WP4.7 with your current version.

Thank you for elevating it. Would really like to see it fixed.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hi Nick,
Thank you for coming back to this issue. I just tested with “Custom” as you suggested, but it did not work.

I’ve spent more time trying to understand the problem with the Upcoming Events widget not showing Today’s events with its date highlighted in the set color (in my case, blue). Unless the plugin’s install is corrupt, I think there is a timezone bug in the calendar widget (LIST view), but I could easily be wrong as I’m far from an expert with this stuff.

I tested for plugin and widget conflicts and there are none. I only enter all day events in Google calendar. It is set for the west coast which is 8 hours behind UTC as described in WP Settings>General>Timezone and set for Los Angeles. I believe the timezones in Google Calendar and WP are set correctly, running the WP’s 2015 theme. I have tried different settings in the calendar widget and none provide the desired results. The Events Calendar (GRID view) https://explorenorthcoast.net/event-calendar/ always works fine.

As mentioned earlier, I created a Testing Upcoming Events calendar (https://explorenorthcoast.net/testing-sidebar-calendar/) and found that tweaking the Settings>Events>Start Date to One Day Before Today will work, but I just discovered it does NOT work during the ENTIRE 24-hour period.

This is what happens: at midnight (12:01 a.m.), all calendars (GRID and LIST views) advance to either the next event (List view) or next day (Grid view) as they should. In the Testing Upcoming Events calendar at 12:01 a.m., Today’s event will be the first listed event in the list of events, but its date will NOT be highlighted in blue. At 8:00 AM, Today’s event will be listed AND highlighted in blue. It stays that way until midnight when the calendar advances and the highlighted date disappears. Its behavior is consistent.

I hope this information helps. We are running out of 2016 events (still building next year’s), but can add a few dummy events, if you want. Thanks again for all that you folks do.

Greg

Hi Nick,
I believe all of the settings are correct. In Google Calendar, I checked the Global, Individual Calendar and Individual Event settings. We are on the west coast and they are all appropriately set to Pacific.

In WordPress, Settings>General>Timezone is set to Los Angeles and, immediately below, appears “Universal time (UTC) is 2016-11-10 17:51:04. Local time is 2016-11-10 09:51:04” The local date and time are correct. Both Date and Time Format settings show correct local values.

In Simple Calendar, Advanced>Timezone is set to Site Default (America/Los_Angeles), Date Format is set to Site Default (Preview shows correct date), and Time Format is set to Site Default (Preview shows 6:01 PM, but it’s 10:01 AM (Showing UTC, which is probably correct???).

Again, up until recently, this used to work fine, and I’ve made no changes to our website.

All-day events are scheduled for 11/11-12 and 11/13-14 in case you want to watch.
https://explorenorthcoast.net/

Thank you again for your help,
Greg

Hi Nick,
I forgot to mention that the workaround I use for this issue is to set Events>Calendar Start to “one day before today”. That seems to work, but haven’t had to do that in the past.

Let me know if you want me to add a few test events to our calendar.

Thanks again,
Greg

Hi Nick,
This happens on the day of the event. All of the events in our calendar are all day events – I do not specify times in calendar events. And, once again, we’re talking about an issue the calendar has when it is viewed in a LIST in the sidebar of our site (Upcoming Events). Relevant settings are:
Events
Calendar Start: Today
Earliest Event: Same as Start
Latest Event: 1 yr after start

Appearance
Span: 4 Events
Hide Header: checked
Static Calendar: checked

Google Calendar
Recurring Events: Only show first occurrence

Advanced
Timezone: Site default
Date Format: Site default
Time Zone: Site default
Week Starts On: Site default (Sunday)

Link to our site: https://explorenorthcoast.net/

We have all day events listed for the next three days, Nov 4-6 (two events on the 6th). The calendar used to display the event on the day of the event, and its date was highlighted in blue. The calendar viewed in grid format (https://explorenorthcoast.net/event-calendar/) works fine.

Thanks for your help,
Greg

Hi Nick, I’m back! I too am experiencing the same issue with the plugin on our site https://explorenorthcoast.net/event-calendar/ . The easiest way to see the problem is on a cell phone. Pull up the calendar and rotate it from landscape to portrait views and back again and everything looks fine – text for calendar items when in landscape view; dots when in portrait view. The problem becomes visible once you tap on a calendar entry. For example, tap on a calendar item while in landscape view. The item’s call out box appears with the item’s description as it should. Now, rotate the phone to the portrait view and the dot for the same event is visible, as it should be, but the call out box will be empty when you tap on the dot. When you rotate the phone back to landscape view, the listing for that calendar item disappears, but the date bar remains black.

Thanks again for all of your great work. It’s a wonderful plugin.

Greg

Ver 3.1.2 and WordPress ver 4.6

Hi Nick, yes, it probably was a caching issue, even though I thought that I had cleared everything. It’s been working flawlessly. Thanks again for a great plugin and the support.

Take care,
Greg

I am confused! For the past two hours (that I’ve been playing with it again) the calendar has been working just fine. I’m not sure what happen. My phone is a Windows phone using IE, and the laptop uses Firefox. I’ve never had issues with either device or browser. Mystery. I’ll continue to monitor, but it sure seems like it’s working. Sorry for the false report and thanks again for all of your great work.

Greg

Nick, just discovered a glitch that I’m not sure why I didn’t see earlier. This morning after updating the plugin and checking its function on my laptop it seemed to work fine. Just now I checked the calendar on my phone and saw that the last day of muli-day events was NOT showing. The same happens on my laptop. I cleared all caches and the issue persists. It works fine when you forward the calendar to the next month and then come back to July.

I think you’ll be able to see what I’m talking about on our calendar. There are two muli-day events that run through Sunday, July 10th: https://explorenorthcoast.net/event-calendar/

Sorry, but I know you’ll figure it out.

Greg

Just updated and appears to work like a champ. Thank you very much, Nick, for the fix and the great plugin. When I get time, I’m going to submit a “wish list” of features that would make it perfect.

Thanks again,
Greg

And, thank YOU for such great support of a wonderful plugin. Looking forward to the fix.