Title: incorrect timezone adjustment Last modified: November 11, 2020 --- # incorrect timezone adjustment * Resolved [jbealle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbealle/) * (@jbealle) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-timezone-adjustment/) * Today one of my site users created an event and the displayed date/time was wrong. After some testing I confirmed that this was restricted to the Events Calender, other timestamp functions worked correctly. We saw that there was a WordPress system update last night and reverted to 5.4.2 the previous one. That fixed the issue, but my suspicion is that it is still an issue for updated sites. * The issue is that the timezone correction is not happening. If I create an event for New York, the event (and also the timestamp on the date/time created) are both Universal time. * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fincorrect-timezone-adjustment%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) * Plugin Support [Deblyn Prado](https://wordpress.org/support/users/deblynprado/) * (@deblynprado) * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-timezone-adjustment/#post-13651683) * Hey there [@jbealle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbealle/) * Thanks for heads up! We haven’t noticed similar issues from other users but we’ll keep on eye on it. * Let me know if you’re able to reproduce it back or have any other details This can be helpful * Cheers, * Thread Starter [jbealle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbealle/) * (@jbealle) * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-timezone-adjustment/#post-13675558) * When I create an event and click Publish, just above the Publish button there is a timestamp “Published on…”. This timestamp is not adjusted correctly, it displays UTC. * Just to the right of the timestamp there is an Edit link. When I click this, the event time is filled in and in this case it is correctly adjusted to local time. * Can you tell from this difference where the problem might be coming from? * I had assumed that WordPress made the adjustment and you just took the local time from them. But if this were a WordPress 5.5.3 issue they would have fixed it promptly. Any idea where I should be looking? The time settings in the Settings panel are correct, with the two live clocks showing UTC and local time. * [Marho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/matumu/) * (@matumu) * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-timezone-adjustment/#post-13683715) * Hi [@jbealle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbealle/) * Thanks for getting back to us, and making these observations. * Can you check the time zone settings for the Events Calendar plugin (Events > Settings) at the backend of your site, and see what option is selected there for the Time zone mode. * That may be the source of this issue. * Best regards, * Marho * Thread Starter [jbealle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbealle/) * (@jbealle) * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-timezone-adjustment/#post-13684393) * The setting was “use site-wide timezone everywhere”. I changed it to “manual timezone,” created a new event, and still did not get the adjustment. So neither setting works. The published event has the EST suffix but the time is UTC. * So basically for either setting, I enter a time of 1pm EST and the result is an event at 6pm EST. * Also I see that I was incorrect saying this worked properly in WordPress 5.4.2. I actually do not know when this problem started. We have not held many events recently and could easily not noticed when it first appeared. * Thread Starter [jbealle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbealle/) * (@jbealle) * [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-timezone-adjustment/#post-13741832) * I am still having this issue, even after updating to Events Calendar 5.3.0. I had hoped this might be fixed in the update. * I have tried deactivating all plugins except Events Calendar, and the problem persisted. * Also I noticed you recommended to another user to install a development version, 5.9.8.2. This advice was in WordPress support [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-timezone-issue/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fix-timezone-issue/) about a month ago. I went to Settings > General but didn’t see any update option listed. * – John Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total) The topic ‘incorrect timezone adjustment’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/the-events-calendar/assets/icon-256x256.gif?rev=2516440) * [The Events Calendar](https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/the-events-calendar/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/the-events-calendar/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/the-events-calendar/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/the-events-calendar/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/the-events-calendar/reviews/) ## Tags * [Event Time](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/event-time/) * 5 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [jbealle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbealle/) * Last activity: [5 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-timezone-adjustment/#post-13741832) * Status: resolved