[TYPO3] simple calendar time zone confusion

[Giannis Economou]

Hello...

Just seen your post, and though you abandoned this, just an idea. We 
have being using simple calendar with success regarding the timezone in 
the past, but without the timezone fixes you described in your first post.

In order to fix the timezone problem, we have done the following:
In main typo3 .htaccess (httpdocs/.htaccess), we have a line:
    php_value auto_prepend_file '/var/www/httpdocs/php_tz.php'
(where /var/www/httpdocs is the path to your document root)

and create the file /var/www/httpdocs/php_tz.php with content:
    <?php
    putenv ('TZ=Europe/Athens');
    ?>
where "TZ=Europe/Athens" is the timezone you are in.

Regards,
Giannis


Katja Lampela wrote:
> Sad to say, I had to give up with this - so just for someone who hasn't 
> too much knowledge of php, this wasn't a simple calendar for me after 
> all; though very promising.
>
>
> Katja Lampela kirjoitti:
>   
>> Okay I try to live with the fact that these two things I can't reach 
>> simultaneously:
>> 1. right time of the event record in FE (though all the time data in BE 
>> looks alright)
>> 2. the proper current date of the calendar.
>>
>> The main thing is ofcourse that the events show right time. Well, the 
>> calendar then thinks it is tomorrow already. And this results in a very 
>> much unwanted situation that today's events don't show at all (not nice!)
>>
>> So what I try to do now is at least the following: I want to show in the 
>> list view also "yesterday's" events which are in fact today's events but 
>> the calendar thinks it is now tomorrow so they are yesterday's events in 
>> calendar's twisted reason.
>>
>> But because of the lack of documentation I don't find where I could (if 
>> I could) define what is displayed in list view; like "from yesterday to 
>> the future".
>>
>> I found the options for the code for example: 
>> list/c:1/l:3/o:1/r:1-1-2004,31-12-2004/d:5
>> (category,location,organizer,month,year,range,daysahead)
>> And d:-1 doesn't help of course.
>>
>> In the main class file there is at least this one place where the 
>> date/time is handled:
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>         // DATE MANIPULATIONS
>>         $GDate = t3lib_div::GPvar('date');
>>
>>         if( isset( $GDate ) )   {
>>             list($month,$year) = explode("-",$GDate);
>>         }     else      {
>>             $month = 
>> ($this->selectParams['month'])?$this->selectParams['month']:date("m");
>>             $year  = 
>> ($this->selectParams['year'])?$this->selectParams['year']:date("Y");
>>         }
>>
>>         $date_string = mktime(0,0,0,$month,1,$year);
>>         $day_start = date("w",$date_string);  //The number of the 1st 
>> day of the month
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> but unfortunately I'm just starting my php learning and I don't 
>> understand what i should do..
>>
>> So - any kind soul out there, please write me a hint, even if it was 
>> just a vague idea..
>>
>> - katja
>>
>>
>> Katja Lampela kirjoitti:
>>     
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> Another question aroused about the simple calendar. I get the event 
>>> record's time shown right with this combination:
>>>
>>> - I put time zone (either the ext de_timezone record or the constant 
>>> field plugin.tx_desimplecalendar_pi1.TZ) GMT -24
>>> - time correction (plugin.tx_desimplecalendar_pi1.GMTcorrection) is 
>>> activated
>>>
>>> This combination gives me also the unwanted situation: the calendar 
>>> month view shows a wrong date for current date, one day ahead (in mon 
>>> it shows it's already tuesday). And the monday events don't show 
>>> because "it was yesterday" - in real it would be today.
>>>
>>> If I don't put the time zone and time correction as described, the 
>>> event date is shown one day too early and also one hour too early.
>>>
>>> So, any ideas what I could do?
>>>
>>> - Katja
>>>       
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