upcoming events code before upgrade to v2

upcoming events

<?php
 global $post;
 $myposts = get_posts('post_type=sp_events&posts_per_page=5&meta_key=_EventEndDate&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC&meta_compare=>=&meta_value='. date('Y-m-d G:i:s', current_time('timestamp')));
 foreach($myposts as $post) :
   setup_postdata($post);
?>

<?php date_default_timezone_set('America/Anchorage');?>
<?php $event_date_raw = sp_get_end_date( $post->ID, false, "Y-m-d G:i:s" ); 
      $event_date = strtotime($event_date_raw); 
	  $now_raw = date("Y-m-d G:i:s");
	  $now = strtotime($now_raw); 

if ($event_date >= $now)  { ?>

<div class="upcoming-events"><a href="<?php echo get_permalink($post->ID) ?>"><?php echo $post->post_title ?></a></div>
<?php echo sp_get_start_date( $post->ID, false, "F j, g:i a" ); ?>

<?php } ?>

<?php endforeach; ?>