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Hi there,
My birthday plugin works but is a day late on listing who's bday is today. For example. Let's say my bday was on May 1, on May 1, my user name will be listed in the "Upcoming" field. Only on May 2 is my user name listed in the "Today" field as indicated on the front end. Any ideas how I can ensure that bdays are depicted accurately on the front end so that they don't show up one day late? Many thanks.
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Timezone setting perhaps? What is the timezone setting in WordPress admin > settings > general? And where are you located?
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Hi Yellow,
My timezone is set to Los Angeles, which is where I'm located.
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What is set to LA??? Andy asked about two locations... The wp settings timezone should be set to where your server is located, not you... then in your sp profile, you would put your own physical location...
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My servers and myself are both located in Los Angeles, as indicated in both wp and sp settings. The issue still persists so I just removed the birthdays plugin.
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did a quick test and seems to be working properly... but will try to dig in deeper today and see if I can recreate under any other circumstances...
is your server handling daylight savings time? Asking because not all do so... not sure if one hour delta could cause it either, but collecting info...
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I hope it's OK to resurrect this thread.
I'm running the Birthdays forum plugin. Because the cron task runs just once a day, the stats in the forum footer are often out of date for users.
For example, it was my birthday yesterday. I'm in the UK, and my SP profile has my timezone set to Europe/London. My server is in Chicago so I've set the timezone to that in WP general settings.
This morning (UK time) the forum stats were still showing today as my birthday (when the cron task last ran at 00:01 Chicago time, it probably still was). I had to manually run the sph_birthdays_cron hook to get it to update and show the correct information, but obviously I can't do that every morning.
I tried deleting sph_birthdays_cron in the Cron Inspector, so I could add it manually with an hourly interval, but before I could do so Simple Press automatically recreated a new task with the same once-daily schedule.
What can I do about this? If I can't change it, can I request an update to the Birthdays plugin that increases the cron task frequency? Ideally I'd like it to run hourly, so the information is correct for users all around the world.
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On the basis that it is always tomorrow or yesterday somewhere then this seems like a totally reasonable thing to do.
I will open a ticket to get it changed for the next update.
If you want to change it yourself I can tell you what to edit.
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