[important] date picker date is saved minus 1 day

• despecial

• March 28, 2020 at 12:45 am

Version: ACF 5.8.9

Case:
Repeater field with start and end date.
This is the setting

Problem:
saved dates jump one day back.
example: select friday april 24 and save the post.
output is thursday 23

This is a big issue!

• despecial

• March 28, 2020 at 12:49 am

It gets even more weird, look at the month of the date picker and the corresponding source code

functions.php only related time stuff is the following code

date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Berlin'); // Lokalzeit
setlocale(LC_TIME, array('de_DE.UTF-8', 'de.UTF-8'));

• despecial

• March 28, 2020 at 1:34 am

searched the forums and removed “date_default_timezone_set” from theme.
checked the rest of the setup. seems to fix the problem.

• bentoweb_fr

• August 13, 2020 at 11:11 pm

Hello,
Same problem. Removed “date_default_timezone_set” but not fixed for me.

Edit : The server is not on ‘UTC’ and I can’t modify that.

• gilles

• March 5, 2021 at 6:28 am

same problem

• chris_ber

• August 12, 2021 at 7:36 am

I solved this as well by removing

date_default_timezone_set(‘Europe/Berlin’);

from function.php.

However this seems still weird to me and should be fixed in future releases…

• nicleg.com

• April 7, 2022 at 7:06 am

I exactly have the same problem this morning, I removed ( that I added this morning )
date_default_timezone_set('Europe/Paris');

and i works again.

Now my problem comes from my mamp which gives me the wrong time/clock ! 🙂
++nico

• prdstudio

• July 29, 2022 at 5:13 am

Stumbled upon this report after a couple of hours struggling, can confirm the same issue with WP 6.01 / ACF 5.12.3

I’m using ACF with a calendar PHP script and I need to use
date_default_timezone_set(‘Europe/Rome’);
in one of my functions.

This results literally in a datepicker value that, when retrieved from that function
get_field (‘my_date’, $post_id); //format Y-m-d
// * * * output: 2022-07-06`
while if edited in the original post field or even in the database record is:
// * * * output: 2022-07-07

EDIT: as per this other thread, it looks like a WordPress core issue