Programatically updating Tribe Events Calendar data using ORM

update.php

<?php
// Uses the symfony/var_dumper package for the dump() function

/** First we create the Event */
$created = tribe_events()
	->set_args([
		'title' => "Test Event",
		'start_date' => "2025-02-14 08:00:00",
		'end_date' => "2025-02-14 10:00:00",
		'laws_external_id' => 123,
		'status' => 'publish'
	])
	->create();
$postId = $created->ID;
dump($postId); //6430

/**
 * We now query by the assigned meta key. An occurrence is created and a provisional ID is returned.
 * The provisional ID does not yet exist in the wp_tec_occurrences table.
 */
$event = tribe_events()
	->where('meta_query', [
		[
			'key' => 'laws_external_id',
			'value'=> 123,
			'compare' => "=",
			'type' => 'NUMERIC'
		]
	])
;

$provisionalEventId = $event->first()->ID;
dump($provisionalEventId); //10000119
dump($event->first()->start_date); //"2025-02-14 08:00:00"
dump(get_post_meta($provisionalEventId)); // [... '_EventStartDate' => [0 => "2025-02-14 08:00:00"]]

/**
 * Now we update the event using the Provisional ID, adjusting the start_date by +30m
 * The Provisional ID is now persisted in the wp_tec_occurrences table.
 *
 * The WP Admin lists 2 events in the UI, but both have the same ID matching $postId - /wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=tribe_events
 * Both posts display a start_date of "2025-02-14 08:00:00" in the WP UI
 */
$updated = tribe_events()->where('ID', $provisionalEventId)
	->set('start_date', "2025-02-14 08:30:00")
	->save();
dump($updated); // [10000119 => true]

/**
 * When accessed via the provisional ID the post_meta that is returned appears to not be updated
 **/
dump(get_post_meta($provisionalEventId)); // [... '_EventStartDate' => [0 => "2025-02-14 08:00:00"]]

/**
 * However, when we get post_meta for the original post ID, we can see that it's been persisted
 */
dump(get_post_meta($postId)); //[... '_EventStartDate' => [0 => "2025-02-14 08:00:00", 1 => "2025-02-14 08:30:00"]]

/**
 * We can query for the Event again, and see that the output start_date is incorrect
 */
dump(tribe_events()->where('ID', $provisionalEventId)->first()->start_date);

/**
 * Querying by the original post ID also fails.
 **/
dump(tribe_events()->where('ID', $postId)->first()->start_date);