Can't get the correct start date / time

[Manuel Geissinger]

Hi there,

we’ve been trying to make our custom events archive and single pages – but unfortunately we’re unable to retrieve the correct date. Using WP the_date() will only return month and year.

We’ve tried to use eo_get_the_start( ) and pretty much any other function that is described in your docs, but failed to retrieve the event start time. The returns are usually “crazy” numbers, I suppose it’s because the start and end times are relative numbers that belong to a timezone? We’re aware that some functions return in PHP-datetime format but still weren’t able to display the correct time.

Please tell us how to display the start time in archive-event.php (copied from the event plugin templates) in the loop.

Thanks,
Manuel.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Manuel,

You probably want to edit eo-loop-single-event.php unless you want to edit the wider structure of the page.

In any case, you can do the following:

 echo eo_get_the_start('G:ia');

The argument determines the format. http://codex.wp-event-organiser.com/function-eo_get_the_start.html

[Manuel Geissinger]

Hi Stephen,

I’ve tried now

 echo eo_get_the_start('G:ia');

But as before the dates aren’t correct. The output is

0:00am

for every event, while in the WordPress backend the dates are displayed correctly.

[Stephen Harris]

Hi Manuel,

What do you get if you do:

 global $post;
 var_dump( $post->occurrence_id );
 var_dump( $post->StartDate );
 var_dump( $post->StartTime );

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