Fatal Error – Unknown of bad timezone

[Anonymous]

Hi there,

First off, I’m rather ‘novice’ when it comes to managing a website. Today, I updated to the most recent version of EME, but it immediately crashed my site (I can’t use wordpress to deactivate it).

When either trying to log into the wordpress admin area or trying to view the site, I see only this error log:

Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: DateTimeZone::__construct(): Unknown or bad timezone () in /home/commu087/public_html/wp-content/plugins/events-made-easy/events-manager.php:326 Stack trace:
#0 /home/commu087/public_html/wp-content/plugins/events-made-easy/events-manager.php(326): DateTimeZone->__construct(”)
#1 /home/commu087/public_html/wp-content/plugins/events-made-easy/eme_actions.php(15): _eme_install()
#2 /home/commu087/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(286): eme_actions_init(”)
#3 /home/commu087/public_html/wp-includes/class-wp-hook.php(310): WP_Hook->apply_filters(NULL, Array)
#4 /home/commu087/public_html/wp-includes/plugin.php(453): WP_Hook->do_action(Array)
#5 /home/commu087/public_html/wp-settings.php(467): do_action(‘init’)
#6 /home/commu087/public_html/wp-config.php(90): require_once(‘/home/commu087/…’)
#7 /home/commu087/public_html/wp-load.php(37): require_once(‘/home/commu087/…’)
#8 /home/commu087/public_html/wp-admin/admin.php(31): require_once(‘/home/commu087/…’)
#9 /home/commu087/public in /home/commu087/public_html/wp-content/plugins/events-made-easy/events-manager.php on line 326

Any tips or insights? I’m pretty lost on how to address this.

Thanks, Dave

[Anonymous]

Sorry about the post title. Should be “Unknown OR bad timezone”…

[Franky]

I’m looking into this right now

[Franky]

What is your wordpress timezone? It seems that is the cause of the problem here …

[Franky]

Ok, found it … I’ll release a new version (reason: wp has 2 options to set the timezone, and I already took that into account beforehand but forgot to update 1 line).

[Franky]

2.0.84 has been released to fix this.

[Anonymous]

Wow, thanks Franky for the speedy replies!

You have any pointers for updating my EME version without access to wordpress? I can’t access my admin page to update the plugin.

Is there a list of changed files/lines you changed that I could upload using ftp if I download a package manually? Hopefully I could then at least get into wp-amin and update the plugin that way.

[Anonymous]

I downloaded the new package from the plugin site. If I upload this in place of my current eme plugin folder, it won’t affect all the event info and settings I have, will it?

Sorry I’m just still really new to how this stuff works.

[Franky]

Just remove the existing events-made-easy folder from your plugin directory and unzip/install the latest one will work just fine.

[Anonymous]

Tried this, with new 2.0.84, and still was getting the same error. I saw another thread you were working on about this subject:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-3100/
Looks like you launched a 2.0.85. That worked for me, thanks again for the quick work!

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