[EventCalendar] Event Calendar publishing and time zone display

Rusty Smith rusty.smith at auburn.edu
Sun Sep 17 15:42:12 UTC 2006


Thanks Alex - that is what I figured. It seems that it can be done,  
as a couple of other calendars that I have subscribed to seem to be  
able to discern my time zone setting appropriately.

Rusty


On Sep 17, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Alex Tingle wrote:

> Hi Riusty,
>
> On 17 Sep 2006, at 16:08, Rusty Smith wrote:
>
>> All:
>> I am just now experimenting with subscribing to my event calendar  
>> via iCal. The time zone shows up in my calendar as "UTC/GMT" which  
>> I expect is the normal (but not desired) behavior. Is there a work  
>> around for this that I am missing? Alex, is it possible to use the  
>> offset entered into the WordPress settings (instead of GMT), if  
>> not actually include a time zone attribute in the published file?
>
> The problem is not one of getting the time-zone correct, but one of  
> getting iCal, and other calendaring apps to understand it. When I  
> first implemented the feature, I played around with iCal for ages,  
> trying to get it to understand time zones. I had no luck.
>
> It's likely that iCal has developed a bit since then, so maybe we  
> can make it work better, now. There are other calendaring apps to  
> worry about too though - Sunbird, PHP calendar, Google's thing.
>
> -Alex
>
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