ICS – How to specify all day Event?

[Rodrigo Torres]

I am creating an .ics file from scratch. I want to specify that an event is all day with no start or end time. Everything I try is either giving me a start time of 12AM or the import isn’t taking it.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:[email protected]
DTSTART:20161216
SUMMARY:Bastille Day Party
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Gives 12:00 AM Start Time.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:[email protected]
DTSTART:20161216
DTEND:20161217
SUMMARY:Bastille Day Party
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Also gives 12:00 AM Start Time.

Same with DTSTART:20161216T000000

The values that Google uses:
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161216
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161217

Give “Your preview doesn’t have any records to import.”

[Cliff]

Hi, Rodrigo.

I’d suggest a few things:

• Reference the iCalendar spec documentation at https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545
• Before attempting your import, test your iCal file in an iCal validator, such as http://severinghaus.org/projects/icv/
• Create an event in The Events Calendar as an All Day event, then visit that event’s single event page — such as http://wpshindig.com/event/wordcamp-raleigh/ — and click the iCal Export button to see how our plugin generates an All Day event’s .ics file

All that being said, I believe the values you said Google uses is the correct format for an All Day event on December 16, 2016.

If your .ics file isn’t having any events in the preview and it validates, then I’d suggest putting a date in this search field: https://cl.ly/1J3q011P2d3O — it defaults to today’s date.

I hope this information helps!

[Rodrigo Torres]

Yes, that’s what I did with the events in my other forum post

[Cliff]

Please provide a link and explain how this thread relates to that other one.

Thank you.

[Support Droid]

Hey there! This thread has been pretty quiet for the last three weeks, so we’re going to go ahead and close it to avoid confusion with other topics. If you’re still looking for help with this, please do open a new thread, reference this one and we’d be more than happy to continue the conversation over there.

Thanks so much!
The Events Calendar Support Team

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