formatting placeholder timezones only once at end

In Settings > Formatting set the time format without the timezone. Then you could create a custom placeholder called #_MYEVENTTIMES using the following code snippet:

add_filter('em_event_output_placeholder', function($replace, $EM_Event, $result) {
    if (preg_match('/#_MYEVENTTIMES.*/', $result)) {
         $replace = $EM_Event->output_times() . '(' . $EM_Event->start()->i18n('e') . ')';
    }
    return $replace;
}, 10, 3);

You could use the Code Snippets plugin to add this code snippet.

Here’s a tutorial on creating custom placeholders: https://wp-events-plugin.com/documentation/tutorials/create-a-custom-placeholder-for-event-formatting/

Thank you so much! That works great as an alternative for #_EVENTTIMES, although it also includes the timezone on “all day” events, which is unnecessary — I’ve been looking to see if there might be a way around that.

We are also trying to figure out how to do the same thing as an alternative for #_EVENTIMES_LOCAL, but am not quite sure the variable to modify for that placeholder.

I’m wondering if it might not be easier to just create a custom placeholder just for the event timezone and the event local timezone so they could be output independently of the start/end times…

I came up with this as a function to supply a placeholder with just the local timezone. Happy to hear suggestions for improvement!

add_filter('em_event_output_placeholder', function($replace, $EM_Event, $result) {
    if (preg_match('/#_MYEVENTTIMEZONE_LOCAL.*/', $result)) {
	$rand = rand();
	ob_start();
	?>
	<span id="em-start-local-timezone-<?php echo $rand ?>">JavaScript Disabled</span>
	<script>
		document.getElementById("em-start-local-timezone-<?php echo $rand ?>").innerHTML = Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone;
	</script>
	<?php
	$replace = ob_get_clean();
    }
    return $replace;
}, 10, 3);

Also, if I’m not mistaken there is already an undocumented #_EVENTTIMEZONE placeholder, so it seems like one could solve the first need here using something like:

#_24HSTARTTIME–#_24HENDTIME (#_EVENTTIMEZONE)

I guess there is also an undocumented #_EVENTTIMEZONE_LOCAL placeholder, so it seems like one could solve the same need for local times using something like:

#_24HSTARTTIME_LOCAL–#_24HENDTIME_LOCAL #_EVENTTIMEZONE_LOCAL

The only issue is that because of the JS scripting, #_EVENTTIMEZONE_LOCAL results have whitespace around them and so putting characters around the placeholder like:

(#_EVENTTIMEZONE_LOCAL)

displays something like:

( #_EVENTTIMEZONE_LOCAL )

Glad to hear you were able to figure this out. I don’t know how to get rid of the spaces.

Thanks for your help! It solved the initial need and set me off on the right track for another solution!