On Aug 29, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Peter Lenagh wrote:

>
> thanks for the reply.
>
>
> I changed my calendar to GMT (no daylight savings) and the problem
> persists.
>
> I submit an event starting on 2008-08-29T09:00:00+00:00, and it
> appears in the calendar as 10:00.
>
> What should i do? surely this works fine for most people.


Did you check the output of mktime on your system?

Compare the results of setting $is_dst to 1, 0 and -1, to the results  
when you don't set $is_dst. If  you have shell access to your server  
what is the output of date?

Ray

>
> thanks again.
>
> On 29 Aug 2008, at 21:23, Ray Baxter wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 29, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Peter wrote:
>>
>>> I have a form where I can add an event to the calendar. My problem
>>> is,
>>> the event is added 1 hour ahead of when it should be added.
>>>
>>> I'm in the UK, in Brittish Summer Time, and i think thats causing  
>>> the
>>> issue. I am submitting the events as GMT (+00:00), and google
>>> calendar
>>> is set to GMT.
>>
>>
>> The Google Calendar UI can be confusing when it comes to GMT. I  
>> assume
>> that what you have set on your calendar is "(GMT+00:00) London." That
>> is the only time zone that you can see if you have selected the UK as
>> your country and haven't checked the "Display all timezones" box. If
>> you check that box, you can see there there is also a selection for
>> "(GMT +00:00) GMT (no daylight saving)".  So you are submitting  
>> events
>> as GMT, but Google calendar is displaying them as BST. You need to
>> either change your calendar display, or change the way that you are
>> submitting them.
>>
>>
>>> If i try to add an event in, say, december (when were back to  
>>> +00:00)
>>> it is added correctly, so im sure the problem is to do with the
>>> timezones.
>>>
>>> How can i change the timezone on the following piece of code, and is
>>> it possible to have a conditional statement so that the timezone is
>>> only changed during the summer?
>>>
>>> $start = date(DATE_ATOM, mktime($hour,$min,0, $month,$day,$year));
>>
>>
>> mktime  takes an additional argument, $is_dst. Exact usage will  
>> depend
>> on how your system is configured.
>>
>> Ray
>>
>> -- 
>> Ray Baxter
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>>
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