Bernhard Riedl

Hi Kristin,

Guessing the user’s timezone could be quite challenging and might not deliver accurate results, for example if the user’s connected via a VPN or Proxy Server. Anyway, afaik, there are some databases on the Internet to map IPs with timezones, but I haven’t tested any of them, though I would only use them to suggest a timezone, for example like Google does with their calendar.

If you want to make sure that you get the user’s timezone right, I recommend to ask via a select – as it’s done in WordPress Admin Menu, page ‘Settings/General’ – or use a text-input with a datalist-field to store the user’s choice in a cookie. It’s then possible to use TimeZoneCalculator to output either the current time or a specific timestamp (e.g. start-date of event) for an anonymous / non WordPress user in her/his timezone.

Regarding your example, I think you got the query_timezone and timezones attributes mixed up. – Please have a look at the Other Notes section for detailed information.

Here’s your example with two timezones,

[timezonecalculator_output query_time="Sun, 13 Sep 2015 14:30:00" query_timezone="America/New_York" timezones="America/New_York\nEurope/Vienna"]

… and that’s how you can setup a shortcode for a current timestamp in a specific timezone if you don’t want to use the selection of TimeZoneCalculator’s settings-page.

[timezonecalculator_output timezones="America/New_York"]

Hope that helps.

My Best,
Berny

Hi kstiwari,

Rest assured, you have not been hacked, this is merely a link to TimeZoneCalculator’s sponsor, Hipmunk. The link can be deactivated in the settings page, tab Administrative Options, option Support your free TimeZoneCalculator by adding a link to it’s sponsor.

My apologies for this misunderstanding.

Berny

Hi Kurnik,

I had a look on your site http://www.showinmyeyes.com/ and I cannot find any pages where you use tags (is TagPages activated?).

With a download link I meant a link where I can download your theme. – Anyway, I found the theme, though it’s a paid theme so I cannot download it for further investigation. – Thus I suggest to contact the theme developer for further help.

Greetz,
Berny

Hi Kurnik,

Thanks for using TagPages.

Sure, it’s possible to hide the tags in the admin menu as well as in your theme. In the admin menu you can just remove the tick in ‘Screen Options’ (top right corner).

In case you want to hide the tags list in your theme, you can either edit your page.php or the related page-template (see the first FAQ for links about themes and template tags) or use CSS display:none on the class or id of the tags-container. Latter technique would only mean hiding the tags for users, but leaving the tags (and their links) in the source-code. Thus, these links would still be parseable for bots (and readable for people who open the generated HTML source code 😉 ).

Hope that helps,
Berny

Hi pgallina,

I’m glad to hear that you like TimeZoneCalculator.

(1) In TimeZoneCalculator’s settings-page, section Format you can adapt the Format of TimeZone-Entry, for example to <li>%datetime</li> to only display the date and time.

(2) The div-container classes are also explained on this page. – In your case, .timezonecalculator-refreshable-output is used. If you need a class for the whole block, you can change the parameter before List to your needs, e.g. <ul class="example-class">

If you need a unique id for the whole widget, I suggest to implement it directly in your theme in your register_sidebar call(s), key 'before_widget' in $args array. – For more information please have a look at the codex-page about sidebars.

Hope that helps,
Berny

Hi GokuMew2,

TimeZoneCalculator uses your server’s time as the basis for its calculations. Following that, these two possibilities are most likely for the time difference you’re experiencing:

1. Your server time might not be synchronized with a NTP server.

   You can check if the UTC timestamp is also off in the general settings on yourdomain.com/wp-admin/options-general.php

2. Your page or also the Ajax-calls may have been cached by either a reverse proxy (e.g. Varnish, CloudFlare, etc.) or a WordPress caching plugin (e.g. WP Super Cache).

   In any case you could either exclude TimeZoneCalculator’s output from the cache (e.g. with SSI) or force an Ajax-refresh on window-load.

Hope that helps,
Berny

Hi HammyHavoc,

You need to set your WordPress timezone to a city (not the manual offsets from UTC) in Settings/General, e.g. http(s)://yourdomain.com/wp-admin/options-general.php. – There’s also a link in the “Administrative Options” section of your TimeZoneCalculator settings page.

My Best,
Berny