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Moving off EventON: its timestamps aren't what they look like

EventON is a popular WordPress events calendar, sold on CodeCanyon, with a free Lite version on wordpress.org. If you're moving off it, or just exporting your events, there's one thing to understand before anything else: the start and end times look like normal unix timestamps, and they aren't. Convert them the obvious way and every event moves by your site's UTC offset. I read this from EventON…

EventON is a popular WordPress events calendar available on CodeCanyon and wordpress.org, with a free Lite version. When moving away from EventON or exporting events, it's crucial to understand that the start and end times appear as normal Unix timestamps but are not. These timestamps need conversion; otherwise, they'll shift by your site's UTC offset. The source material explains how to properly handle these timestamps and other event details when transferring events to a new calendar system.

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