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    • ankonaskiff17A Offline
      ankonaskiff17 @ankonaskiff17
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      @sdetweil All that garbage associated with Holiday calendar is being pulled from the CalendarLabs site but since MM is loading it in list format it just gets lost in the ether?

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        sdetweil @ankonaskiff17
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        @ankonaskiff17 no idea, still debugging

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          @ankonaskiff17 ok, can recreate… was testing on 2.18 … which didn’t fail…

          so that points to the node-ical lib which was changed for this release…

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            ankonaskiff17 @sdetweil
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            @sdetweil You have any thoughts/ideas about what is going on?
            EST5EDT looks like some sort of mash up of Eastern Standard Time and Eastern Daylight Time and your node-ical comment look like a more complex issue. Are they intertwined?
            Neither of the two would be in my control in just dropping a Google generated URL in the config file.

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              sdetweil @ankonaskiff17
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              @ankonaskiff17 can u look at the entry in google calendar and see what the timezone setting is?

              how did u create that entry? phone, tablet, computer???

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                ankonaskiff17 @sdetweil
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                @sdetweil Per Google the only way to get the links is via the PC/Laptop Google Calendar. In their help links they spell that out pretty explicitly and that is how I did it and have always done it. The url generated on settings page is pretty straightforward with only possible error being if you choose public or private url.

                As far as time zone, I’ve attached an image but in screen capture the top Primary was and is correct just as shown. The secondary was some oddball city with time being GMT - 7 hours vs primary being GMT -4 so I changed secondary to be another GMT-4 city.

                I looked last night, but on phone, and it showed correct time.
                Is the 5 in EST5EDT what happens when toggling between EST & EDT & GMT? I dont have any idea if EU has an equivalent to daylight savings timeTime Zone .jpg

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                  sdetweil @ankonaskiff17
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                  @ankonaskiff17 said in Problem with Google generated .ics link:

                  Is the 5 in EST5EDT what happens when toggling between EST & EDT & GMT? I dont have any idea if EU has an equivalent to daylight savings time

                  yes, other countries have DST/STD time shifts…

                  typically the TZID is specified like this

                  TZID=America/Barbados
                  or
                  TZID=America/Chicago
                  

                  I see that your ICS has a special definition of the TZID EST5DST

                  BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
                  TZID:EST5EDT
                  X-LIC-LOCATION:EST5EDT
                  BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
                  TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
                  TZOFFSETTO:-0400
                  TZNAME:EDT
                  DTSTART:19700308T020000
                  RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU
                  END:DAYLIGHT
                  BEGIN:STANDARD
                  TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
                  TZOFFSETTO:-0500
                  TZNAME:EST
                  DTSTART:19701101T020000
                  RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU
                  END:STANDARD
                  END:VTIMEZONE
                  

                  none of the code we have or use processes the TZ definitions. so that may be the issue…
                  everything uses the IANA tz definitions.

                  https://www.iana.org/time-zones

                  i wrote the mapping code for special MS definitions to IANA definitions used in node-ical and mm calendar
                  (from this table https://secure.jadeworld.com/JADETech/JADE2020/OnlineDocumentation/content/resources/encyclosys2/jadetimezone_class/ianawindowstimezonemapping.htm)

                  but nothing accepts the EST5DST format,and neither read the timezone definitions in the ICS file.

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                    ankonaskiff17 @sdetweil
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                    @sdetweil Sent you an email

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