[Robert]

* Create an announer pro entry
* Set Timezone of WordPress To Europe/Vienna
* Activate the countdown mode
* Enable a Countdown for a Month with a german name eg “29. Januar 2026 00:00”
* When loading the page, a fatal happens:

Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: Failed to parse time string (29. Januar 2026 00:00) at position 6 (u): The timezone could not be found in the database in […]/announcer-pro/includes/display.php:480

If fixed it temporarily by updating the display.php to rename all german month names to english ones 😉

[Aakash]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for reporting this and sorry for the late reply.

I verified that on different site language, the calendar still allows date selection with only numbers.

I would suggest using the calender picker instead of typing the date-time manually.

Please let me know if you have any concerns.

Thanks,
Aakash

[Robert]

Hey Aakash,

thanks for the reply! I think you missunderstood my request.

I did select the timestamp from the calendar

This was not manually entered. When the OS / Browser Locale is set to “de_AT” (german, austria or germany) then the string “Januar” is placed in the countdown field after selecting a value in the calendar 🙂

I think the calendar generates the timestamp based on the current locale, maybe it can be fixed to YYYY-MM-DD in the code

[Aakash]

Hi Robert,

The date picker should set the date time only with numerals.
If possible, please confirm if the date picker you see in your end is same as in the screenshot below.

May be some other calendar picker is overriding the intended one.

Thanks,
Aakash

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