Answered Display date off by 4 hours. Is calendar running on on Pacific time instead of Eastern?

I am having an issue with the calendar sometimes displaying incorrectly in the admin. The incorrect display shows certain events as being 1 day later, if and only if, the event is posted after 9PM (our Eastern Standard time). The front end does display properly.

I found another post referring to the dates being off by one date here: https://forums.modx.com/thread/77927/upcoming-events-appear-on-wrong-date#dis-post-448901

Although I have a slightly different issue. When I create an event in my calendar (v.1.1.6) and add a time and date everything seems to work fine. Except when I make the start time after 9PM the event shows in the admin panel as the next day. On the front end it shows on the correct date, and the date fields are correct, it only shows in the admin view page as the day later. Since I experimented with different times and it worked fine before 9PM, I am thinking the calendars multiple view area in the admin, seems to be on Pacific time (and we are on the Eastern time). I suspect this because the admin multiple view date is exactly 4 hours off in the evening. However, if I change the start date to the beginning or 12AM the date is still correct.

Once again this does not affect the front end that the visitors see, its only in the admin panel, but we have many entries and these incorrect dates make it difficult to organize our events.

Anyone know how I can correct this admin date area only? [ed. note: charless last edited this post 13 years, 2 months ago.]

OK the date_timezone in system settings was blank. So I am assuming this value is taken from the server php.ini and that time is 3 hours behind EST (-8 GMT). So this might be the problem.

What type of value can I put into the date_timezone to display EST (-5 GMT)? I just do not know what type of value and format MODx wants for this setting. According to another post I see this: "America/New_York" Can I use this for the value?

Thank you. I set the: date_timezone to a value of: America/New_York and the time issue seems to be resolved. Apparently the server PHP time setting was the issue, so this setting seemed to correct the problem.

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I don't see a mark as answered. I see the WSYSIWYG box that I typed this into (no answered) there is a preview, reply, reply to thread, mark as unread, reply with quote, modify, remove, subscribe rss, and stop e-mails. I then tried to reply to see if the mark as answered showed and I just do not see it.

Is this answered button hidden somewhere?

just fyi that I change to question post and flagged the answer; thanks Shawn

If a timezone is not set, PHP will try to use the server's timezone setting. Since a site can be hosted on servers anywhere in the world, even if the server has such a setting it's probably not going to be very useful to use that setting.

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