Event Brite api timezone issue

Question

Have been trying to create new event via EB API call, confronted the issue of date validation... https://www.eventbrite.com/json/event_new?app_key=xxxxxxx&status=live&user_key=xxxx&title=greatword2&description=green&start_date=2013-05-02+5:00:00&end_date=2013-05-30+00:01:00&timezone=GMT+01 As i am sending the above call, regardless of the timezone passed, start date is validated as per GMT-7 timezone(California perhaps).... is there a way to fix this? as we are dealing with clients from across the globe, just cant ask them to match with again and again

Answer 1

Note, I work on the platform team at Eventbrite

The timezone string you are using is not the correct format. The GMT\d format is quite old, and the code ignoring it and defaulting to America/Los_Angeles. For GMT you would pass in Etc/GMT. It looks like you are +1 GMT in which case you'd use something like Europe/Warsaw. No matter what you provide, it should be the actual timezone name.

You can read more here:

http://developer.eventbrite.com/doc/events/event_new/