Calendar/Time issues

[mullaney]

ALL USERS

I had previously stated that all users should select "DST corrections always on" for their "Daylight Savings Time Options:" under User CP > Options. I think this is wrong. I think that all users should select "Automatically detect DST settings" instead. Basically, select the correct time zone for you and then select "auto detect" and go back to the main index and check to make sure the time at the bottom of the page jives with your actual time.

CALENDAR ADMINS

For people adding things to the calendar, I have searched the vbulletin forums and found that other message board admins have been running into time problems like you have. I have made a change that one of the developers suggested and that has corrected some but not all of the issues that people have described. Here are some additional suggestions/instructions:

• When adding a show to the calendar, be sure that you select the correct time zone for that show. A lot of people are not changing the selection from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and their event times are off by 5 hours because of it.
• When adding a recurring event, be sure to add the correct "Recurrance Options". If your event occurs every Tuesday within the dates you provided, click on "Weekly" and "Tuesday".
• Realize that for now, the time will be incorrect in two respects.
  • The time may be off by 1 hour when looking just at that specific event because of Daylight Savings Time issues. I expect that this issue will be corrected soon. It is correct in nearly every other view.
  • It will also be incorrect for people not logged in.
  However, I would strongly suggest that you not try to make corrections to the time in order to compensate for the time difference when not logged in. Choose the correct time zone and times for your shows, because for the most part people the people you are trying to target view the board while logged in.

I realize that the calendar has been somewhat annoying lately. vbulletin added times in an effort to make the calendars more functional and it only made things more complicated for us, but I am trying to work with them to come up with solutions to these problems. Ideally, a show that you enter as being at 8pm, should be at 8pm regardless of what time zone the user is in.

 

[Maddy]

Here's a weird thing. On the first of a string of Recurring calendar events is correct each subsequent one of them is an hour off from the first one...weird. How is it that the first one is correct but the others are not...that doens't seem to be a DST issue.

Ack, I'm sure you are working on it I just thought I would bring it up in case no ne else had, but I bet someone has.

Madalyn

 

[mullaney]

The code they have isn't consistently dealing with Daylight Savings Time. In some places, it compensates for it, in others it doesn't.

 

[mullaney]

I found my error with vbulletin. "The time may be off by 1 hour when looking just at that specific event because of Daylight Savings Time issues. I expect that this issue will be corrected soon. It is correct in nearly every other view." This should be fixed today.

 

[mullaney]

"The time may be off by 1 hour when looking just at that specific event because of Daylight Savings Time issues. I expect that this issue will be corrected soon. It is correct in nearly every other view."

Fixed.

 

[Maddy]

Now it won't let me post a one time event, I hit Add Event and post- it keeps saying

"No recurring event will occur for the date range you specified."

I am putting in the same date as from & to because the event only last an hour

What am I doing wrong?

Edit: To get it to post I had to change the "to" date to the following day, but that is not accurate - help. thanks in advance. and hey I love the IRC

 

[mullaney]

I just added an event, no problem.

I need to see your values for both the to and from date and from and to event time. To help you. Does your event go til midnight?

 

[Maddy]

I need to see your values for both the to and from date and from and to event time. To help you. Does your event go til midnight?

I put in July 28 to July 28

8pm to 9pm and I got the error message - it didn't post

I must be dooing something wrong.

I currently have it up until midnight b/c that was the closest to the real time that would post for me.

 

[DJ Plan B]

I've had the exact same problem. When adding a one-time event, you put in the time and date as would seem correct and then get an error saying it can't save the "recurring event". The only way to rectify is to change the end date to the next day and end it whenever (anytime after midnight that day). I had to do this to add the Inside Joke with Scott Thompson if you're looking for a specific example Kev.

 

[mullaney]

I put in July 28 to July 28

8pm to 9pm and I got the error message - it didn't post

I must be dooing something wrong.

I currently have it up until midnight b/c that was the closest to the real time that would post for me.

Fixed. This shouldn't be a problem anymore.

 

[Maddy]

Fixed. This shouldn't be a problem anymore.

YAY! :up: Thanks!

 

[mullaney]

I have been going through and cleaning up the calendar, correcting times, dates and timezones.

Again everyone, make sure you put in the correct time and date and use the correct time zone for your event. There shouldn't be any reason to get tricky with timezones anymore.

 

[Shannon Manning]

My calendar event (beauty love truth) is still not showing up on the front page.

The other event I added (howard dean on ice) does show up.

What gives?

 

[mullaney]

Is Beauty Love Truth recurring?

 

[Shannon Manning]

Yes it is recurring. Don't recurring events show up on front page calendar?

Also the top Improv Resource center logo at the top of every page should prolly point back to irc mainpage, not the /mb, right?

 

[tombuazit]

hey can only special people add calander events?? I was checking it out (nothing to add really just checking it out) and it tells me that I am a bad bad boy for trying.

 

[mullaney]

Yes you have to be a member of a specific group to add events. Directions on how to get access are on the front page of this site.

 

[mullaney]

Yes it is recurring. Don't recurring events show up on front page calendar?

No they coded recurring events in a tricky way for the calendar, so I have not found a way to easily unravel it for the front page. The front page calendar events list recurring events only on the first day of a run.

 

[Shannon Manning]

I can't find the edit post function for the calendar.

 

[mullaney]

I can't find the edit post function for the calendar.

There is a drop down box in the lower right hand corner of the calendar listing.