This is not about the event calendar. You are running another plugin that conflicts with the event calendar. There is not much I can do about that until Elgg core includes the date picker and all plugins using one remove it from their code.

Sorry.

I am having a similar problem with Profile Manager by Jeroen where the date picker for a DOB field is showing -1 day to the entry if the DOB entered is before 1/1/1970.

Any suggestions for a fix for this?

@mkdberry - didya now that mysql stores internally as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970 ? n u r having probls w/ dates b4 1970 !!

This is not about the event calendar. You are running another plugin that conflicts with the event calendar. There is not much I can do about that until Elgg core includes the date picker and all plugins using one remove it from their code.

Sorry.

I am having a similar problem with Profile Manager by Jeroen where the date picker for a DOB field is showing -1 day to the entry if the DOB entered is before 1/1/1970.

Any suggestions for a fix for this?

@mkdberry - didya now that mysql stores internally as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970 ? n u r having probls w/ dates b4 1970 !!

Alfirus,

That screen shot suggests that the event calendar jQuery may be broken (look at the way the Prev and the Next are located).

I suggest that you disable all but the core plugins to see if something may be disrupting the jQuery functions.

There are several plugins that are known not to play nicely with the event calendar, including the Profile Manager and the Tasks plugin.

yesssss..... now i know why. Thanks for your great feedback. 4 thumbsup!

You needn't turn off any plugin. Have a look at "1970 problem again".

Hi,

After disabling/enabling all plugins, I found out that 2 of them are the sources of two different problems with event_calendar.

Task 1.6 (curverider): when this plugin is enabled, the calendar used to pick up the dates is not anymore visible. Only the numbers are.

Profile_manager 5.3 (Coldtrick IT Solutions): this one seems to the the main problem. When enabled, the date goes back to 01/01/1970.

Unfortunately, I really need those 3 features in my site (calendar, profile manager, tasks)!

Curverider has put the date picker in core in the version of Elgg in SVN. So in future, hopefully plugins will not need to include their own date pickers and these conflicts will not occur.

For now, you could try the form suite of plugins instead of the profile manager. The form suite does not include a date picker and so is compatible with the event calendar.

Thanks for your answer. I will test the form suite and keep you updated if I still encounter some issues.

This has been tracked down to a bug in core Elgg 1.7:

http://trac.elgg.org/ticket/2022

With any luck it will be fixed in the Elgg 1.7.1 release.

To clarify, the bug is not in the plugin and does not occur with Elgg releases before 1.7.

Damn, I really needed this plugin for my 1.7 site. Thanks for looking into this for me, guess i'll have to wait then for 1.7.1 eh?