Title: Avoid timezone confusion
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Avoid timezone confusion

 *  Resolved [thor86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thor86/)
 * (@thor86)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-timezone-confusion/)
 * Hi,
 * Thank you for this awesome plugin!!!
    I would like to implement something but
   I don’t know if this is possible. 1) I would like the event start time/end time
   to display differently for different time zones, so the times are adjusted for
   different viewers depending on their own own time zone. (detecting the user location
   is not a problem) 2) I would like when an author posts an event (the author can
   be located in different locations of the world) I would like him to be able to
   select the event start time/event end time reported to his current timezone. 
   Detection of the author location that is not a problem.
 * Do you think the functionalities above can be implemented within the current 
   plugin?
 * Many thanks in advance for your help!
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/events-manager/)

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 *  [Philip John](https://wordpress.org/support/users/philipjohn/)
 * (@philipjohn)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-timezone-confusion/#post-4080926)
 * Hiya,
 * Yep – take a look at the date_i18n filter. You should be able to hook into that
   to change the date/time according to timezone.
 * Thanks,
    Phil
 *  Thread Starter [thor86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thor86/)
 * (@thor86)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-timezone-confusion/#post-4081037)
 * Hi Phil,
 * Thank you for your answer, but I think I need some more indications.
    So basically
   I should try to change the global time reference for the events? Tell me please
   should I look into changing programmatically what is set in the Admin Panel >
   Settings > General Settings > Timezone, and change that based on the user location?
 * Thank you for all your help and have a great day!
 *  Plugin Author [Marcus (aka @msykes)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/netweblogic/)
 * (@netweblogic)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-timezone-confusion/#post-4081043)
 * You’d need to add custom code to get this sort of thing working. It’s not just
   a few lines code so we couldn’t help you with this.
 * Chances are you’d want to use one placeholder (or better yet, a custom placeholder)
   to display your event times and customize the output of that based on the user
   location. See this for starters:
 * [http://wp-events-plugin.com/tutorials/create-a-custom-placeholder-for-event-formatting/](http://wp-events-plugin.com/tutorials/create-a-custom-placeholder-for-event-formatting/)
 *  Thread Starter [thor86](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thor86/)
 * (@thor86)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-timezone-confusion/#post-4081045)
 * Hi Marcus,
 * Thank you very much for your answer. It totally makes sense.
    Tell me please (
   as a different question but related to the same topic) do you think would it 
   be possible to implement this functionality: If there are authors from different
   locations of the world, would it be possible for each one of them to select the
   event start time/event end time reported to his current timezone?
 * Thank you so much for all your help!
 *  Plugin Support [angelo_nwl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/angelo_nwl/)
 * (@angelo_nwl)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/avoid-timezone-confusion/#post-4081052)
 * yes, but as per [@marcus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcus/) posted
   above you’d need to add custom code to get this sort of thing working. It’s not
   just a few lines code so we couldn’t help you with this.

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