[support] Calendar, event, and timezone problems

[David Maynard]

When I first created a site about a year ago, the 4.6 code was very
inconsistent in the handling of timezones.  It was hard to "fix" the code
because making a change in one place broke other things.  The CivicSpace
distribution I ended up using fixed a lot of these issues compared to the
vanilla Drupal code.  Presumably, those changes should have been rolled
back into the 4.7 code.

However, if you are using flexinode with the events module, I don't know
if you can migrate to 4.7 without problems.  I have been afraid to upgrade
since everything I read says that flexinode doesn't really work with 4.7. 
Apparently, the CCK module is the new darling of developers and flexinode
is considered yesterday's news.  However, there are still several other
modules that nobody has ported to work with CCK.  So, unless you have the
time and skills to start porting code, I don't know what to suggest.

The CivicSpace code might be a place to start, but they seem pre-occupied
with their other projects these days and I can't tell if they ever plan to
do 4.7-based CivicSpace release.  (That's fine, it's up to them where they
want to focus, but it's good to know the status before you commit to
something.)

For now, I'm still running a CivicSpace-based site and deciding what to
try next.  I really want to limit the amount of custom code on my site
since I want to hand over maintenance to someone who may not be a PHP
hacker.

-dpm

Andrew Cohill said:
> I've just spent about two hours reading message after message in the
> Drupal forums about timezone offset problems, and still can't figure
> out what the problem is.
>
> I have two sites running on the same server, with site time and event
> time settings set the same way, and one site handles the time
> correctly, and the other site does not.
>
> At this point, it appears to be luck as much as anything if Drupal
> displays the correct time.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On Sep 23, 2006, at 4:47 PM, Andrew Cohill wrote:
>
>> Like some others, I'm having problems with the event module and the
>> site time zone settings (Drupal 4.6).
>>
>> All events being posted are showing up one hour earlier, even
>> though the site time is set correctly and configurable time zones
>> is turned off.
>>
>> Turning configurable time zones on and adjusting the setting for
>> the event module has no effect--events are still one hour early.
>>
>> I have also created a flexinode called calendar_event so that
>> events can have a description and location, but there does not seem
>> to be any way to turn off access to the basic event in access
>> control.  No one on the site has permission to use the 'basicevent'
>> module, but in the create content menu, an 'event' item shows up.
>>
>> I can take that option out with the menu settings, but I don't
>> understand what module is generating the basic event node as a
>> 'create content' option.  I should be able to turn this using
>> access control.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew
>>
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