Question

Event ‘start_time’ is being stored incorrectly into mysql database.

events that store incorrectly

https://graph.facebook.com/112797205532177 – stores as 2012-10-12 19:00:00
correct is 2012-10-13

{
"id": "112797205532177", 
"owner": {
    "name": "MUST...NOT...KILL", 
    "category": "Musician/band", 
    "id": "108837005801452"
}, 
"name": "METAL MEOWLISHA", 
"description": "W/ Brutailty", 
"start_time": "2012-10-13", 
"location": "The brass mug", 
"venue": {
    "id": "151496721577181"
}, 
"privacy": "OPEN", 
"updated_time": "2012-07-27T21:20:20+0000"
}

https://graph.facebook.com/278345158937377 – stored as 2012-11-18 18:00:00
correct is 2012-11-19

{
"id": "280381075399709", 
"owner": {
    "name": "Lamb of God", 
    "category": "Musician/band", 
    "id": "9008741434"
}, 
  "name": "Lamb of God On Tour", 
  "description": "Wed/Oct-31\tLos Angeles, CA @ TBA\t", 
  "start_time": "2012-10-31", 
  "privacy": "OPEN", 
  "updated_time": "2012-09-05T21:37:29+0000"
}

i have been searching the net checking for the solution. with no luck

the goal is to store the exact field ‘start_time’ with no conversion. there is no conversion in my code. i am thinking it has to do with php settings

Edit: added the returned results from the graph api and here is my insert string(in codeigniter

$eventdata = array(
            'artists_name'=>$artists,
            'event_status'=>$event_stat,
            'formatted_datetime'=>$formatted_datetime,
            'formatted_location'=>$formatted_location,
            'event_id'=>$event_id,
            'venue_name'=>$venue_name,
            'venue_city'=>$vcity,
            'venue_region'=>$vstate,
            'venue_country'=>$vcountry,
            'venue_lat'=>$vlat,
            'venue_long'=>$vlong,
            'date_time'=>$date_time,
            'rsvp_url'=>$rsvp_url,
            'ticket_url'=>$ticket_url,
            'updated'=>$updated);
            $eventinsert = $this->db->insert_string('newEvents',$eventdata);
            $this->db->query($eventinsert);

thanks

EDIT this is the complete php file

include 'facebook.php';

$facebook = new Facebook(array(
  'appId'  => 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
  'secret' => 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
));


$check = $facebook->api('278345158937377');
print_r ($check['start_time']);

?>

Stripped everything out i could so far. i find it odd that a string result would get autoconverted before displaying.

graph and fql on facebooks site display 2012-11-19
my site displays 2012-11-18

Answer 1

Add the GMT offset to the time and THEN store it.

Example: Im in EST, the time difference is 5 hours, so add 18000 to the unix time stamp