daylight savings issue

[Noiz Pollution]

Hi folks,

I'm having trouble posting nightclub information in my calendar due to daylight savings interfering with the times. The clubs start late on 1 day (either 22:30 or 23:00) and finish early the next morning (03:00). The clubs which start at 22:30 are said to start at 00:00 the next day, making it look like the event is actually on the next day, which I would imagine could get very confusing for people if they haven't attended the event in the past.

Is there any way I can have the event just show the time I give it with the time zone next to it in brackets? For instance: 23:00 - 03:00 (GMT)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Cheers,
Robert

[Noiz Pollution]

Anybody else encountered a similar issue?

[Steve Machol]

Sorry but I had difficulty following your original post. Have you tried posting this same thing on the calendar here to see if you get the same results?

[Noiz Pollution]

Basically I'm in GMT which is currently in British Summer Time. As I'm sure you know this is a DST zone, which is having an effect on what time events are showing as. The events I'm posting are in the same time zone and the time at which they happen don't change whether it's BST or otherwise, they're always a set time.

What I would like to do is post an event and have it show the time I give it with the time zone I've selected in brackets next to it as opposed to having it work out what time the event would be happening in another time zone.

Is there any way to do this?


Cheers,
Robert

[Freddie Bingham]

Events will always show in the timezone of the user viewing them. You can't force an event to display in the timezone that you enter it under.

[Noiz Pollution]

Looks like I'm going to have to hack the calendar then, all I'm really looking to do is dumb that part of the system down a bit because to be honest it isn't working like it should, I remember reading somewhere Scott saying that DST is the bain of developers because it's a real ***** to work with. Ach well, vbulletin.org ahoy!


Cheers,
Robert

[Noiz Pollution]

Sorry but I had difficulty following your original post. Have you tried posting this same thing on the calendar here to see if you get the same results?

After getting zero response on vbulletin.org I decided I would try to recreate this problem here and I get hit with a no permission error.

[Steve Machol]

Not sure what you tried to do, but as Freddie said the calendar times will always show up in the timezone of the person viewing the event.

[Noiz Pollution]

Do you think it would be possible to do it the way I'm looking to? I know it'll involve a hack but what with you guys knowing the code better than me I figured you'd likely have a better idea if it were possible?

[Steve Machol]

I don't know the code at all since I'm not a programmer. I don't see why this wouldn't be possible though.

[poolking]

The solution I find is to just enter the start and time of your event an hour earlier, then when you view your event it will come out at the correct time.

I just came across this issue myself and that is how I solved it.