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Hi.

I just had the exact same problem (even the same time zone as Ludvik,CST) and I tried using this new template. Instead of 5 hours off, it’s only 1 hour behind now. Progress. All other pages are showing correct time, it’s just the RSS feed that’s off.

You mentioned a way to include a timezone offset?

Here’s the feed:
http://www.grizzliesonline.com/index.php?/calendar/calendar_feed

I’m not seeing a date field or even an entry when I click on the link in the RSS feed..

Oops, thanks.  I fixed it.

But actually, I didn’t mean on the post.  I meant in the feed itself.  The date says 6PM when it should be (and the post has it correct) 7PM.

Make sense?

But I can’t compare the two without seeing it on the site. 😊 I’ll go look again.

Aren’t feed times supposed to be in UTC? (The idea being that the client can then adjust the date to allow for local offsets.) Are you using {gmt_date} in your template?

Looking at your page, we have:

Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>

Ah, GMT 😊 If that’s not what you want, change your template tag to use entry_date or something like that.

Eureka!  So I decided to step away from the problem for the weekend and instead focused on entering all the dates for the year—including some earlier events that I had skipped over. 

Checking the rss feed again, I found that the earlier dates were showing the correct time while the later dates were still showing an hour earlier… the answer: DST!

The RSS template is showing what the time *would* be if we didn’t change clocks for daylight savings. It’s not taking the clock change into account.

So, does that mean the issue’s been resolved?

Well, is there a way to get the rss tag to recognize that DST is ending after October (or whenever it does), so it shows the correct time?

Grizzlies:

Because DST is not observed everywhere, this is something you will need to change in your localization settings and control panel settings.

Kind Regards,

-greg

Hm, you lost me.  Localization is set to Central Time US. Shouldn’t the entry in the rss feed reflect that the future date of the event will not be during DST?  I know that DST isn’t observed everywhere.

How about “Honor the Daylight Saving Time setting associated with each weblog entry?” (set to Yes right now)

Grizzlies:

Can you check out this KB Entry and let us know if that helps at all? 

Thanks,

-greg

Yes, that helps explain it.  Thanks.  The wiki entry is useful too.

Glad to see Greg squared you away there. If anything else comes up, please simply start a new thread, thanks.