Reply To: Hook/Filter to edit the timestamp after user has selected a date and time

• ch1n3s3b0y

• September 1, 2015 at 11:57 pm

Update: So I have found this http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/acfsave_post/.

I am hooking into it, but the date isn’t actually being written to the database. Not sure why not. Here is my code:

function updateSeminarTime( $post_id ) {

    // bail early if no ACF data
    if( empty($_POST['acf']) ) {

        return;

    }

    // array of field values
    //$fields = $_POST['acf'];

    // specific field value
    $post = get_post( $post_id );
    $expertId =  $post->post_author;
    $userTimeZone = getTimeZone($expertId);
    $userTimeZoneOffset = get_timezone_offset($userTimeZone,'UTC');
    $seminarDate = $_POST['acf']['seminar_date'];
    $seminarDate = strtotime($seminarDate);
    $seminarDate = $seminarDate + $userTimeZoneOffset;
    $seminarDate = date('m/d/y h:mm tt',$seminarDate);
    $_POST['acf']['seminar_date'] = $seminarDate;

}

// run before ACF saves the $_POST['acf'] data
add_action('acf/save_post', 'updateSeminarTime', 1);

I’m wondering if I am writing the format wrong. BTW I have tried with date() and formatting it to a string and also just as a UNIX timestamp.