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April 2, 2014 at 2:51 pm

It looks like the date format is hardcoded in widgets/upcoming_events/EEW_Upcoming_Events.widget.php on line 296. You can modify it there but the modification will get overwritten each time you update. You can take a look at what I did here, https://github.com/sidharrell/EE4custom/tree/customWidget and do pretty much the same thing to have a customizable copy of the widget where you can modify the hardcoded date and time format and keep the modifications from getting overwritten.

April 2, 2014 at 7:47 pm

Hi Tomsor3,

It turns out that this isn’t a timezone problem, but along the lines of customizing the display’s time format. The event page uses a template function to display the date, and the date/time format can be customized, but not by changing date_default_timezone_set. Changing date_default_timezone_set will cause problems for WordPress and possibly Event Espresso [1] and [2]. I recommend removing the

date_default_timezone_set(‘Norway/Oslo’);

form wp-config.php

Then to change the time format display you can create a child theme and copy over content-espresso_events-datetimes.php from the Event Espresso plugins’s /templates/Espresso_Arabica_2014 folder to the child theme. Then you can change line 8 to read as follows:

<?php espresso_list_of_event_dates( $post->ID, $dt_frmt = 'l F jS, Y', $tm_frmt = 'G:i' );?>

This will change the time format that’s used when it displays the upcoming dates.

[1] http://vip.wordpress.com/documentation/use-current_time-not-date_default_timezone_set/

[2] http://weston.ruter.net/2013/04/02/do-not-change-the-default-timezone-from-utc-in-wordpress/