When I create an event Meetup reports the wrong time

[michele....@gmail.com]

Hi there.

I've been able to create all sorts of events, and I have become acquainted with all the parameters required, but I must admit I'm not sure how to handle the time parameter...

When I create an event I send the time parameter with the milliseconds elapsed since the epoch, but when Meetup creates the event, then I notice that the time is off by a few hours.

It seems as if Meetup automatically adds a time shift to account for the time zone, but I have not been able to figure out how to deal with it.

I'm on the West Coast, and my group is in San Francisco.

The last thing I tried was to get the utc milliseconds shifted to Pacific time zone (-7), but this doesn't seem to work...

Could you help me figure out how to set the time in event creation?

Thank you in advance

Mike

[Teruo Utsumi]

Hi Mike,

I'm in the same time zone.  See the below thread.  There's one post w/ an attachement.  It's in Python, but it works for me.
   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/meetup-api/5TQjbvxDJFU

Good luck!

Teruo

[michele....@gmail.com]

Hi Teruo and thanks for your reply.

Unfortunately I did try your code, and it actually gives me the exact same number of milliseconds my code gets me.

Despite that, all the events I post to Meetup are offset by a few hours.

I'm at a loss here.

Are times in requests somehow shifted to East Coast time zone?

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Mike

[Teruo Utsumi]

Meetup time is based on UTC.  Jan. 1 1970, midnight UTC ss the start of the epoch. 

Please post your code.  I suspect you're not taking UTC into properly.  At least for Python, the libraries take DST and time zone differences into account.

--Teruo