Solution for issue importing ical to google calendar. Please reply

[Storm Rockwell]

Hello! I couldn’t make an issue on GitHub and don’t have an active PRO membership but I need to share this info I have now after researching this for a client.

Basically, you have probably seen lots of issues regarding incorrect time zones when importing to Google Calendar but every other app seems to work fine? This is because in the iCal file exported the TZID timezone string is something like “UTC-5” which is invalid but most importing apps will accept it.

If the exporter was to just use the WordPress function “get_option(‘timezone_string’)” it could use that instead to get the correct timezone. I currently have a client facing this issue right now. Even though the timezone is set to America/New_York it returns UTC-5 instead. I have tested this theory and was successful by just opening the file and replacing “UTC-5” with “America/New_York”. I couldn’t find a hook in PHP to modify this to truly make it happen but I think this should be enough info for developers to be able to come up with a solution for this issue. I would make a pull request but I just don’t have the time to look through the source ATM

Thank you,
Storm Rockwell
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WP & WP Slack @stormrockwell

[Shelby]

Hey there Storm,

I have certainly noticed an uptick in the number of timezone related issues recently. 🙂 Thanks for digging into this and reporting your findings!

I’ll be passing this up the chain here to ensure that it’s taken into consideration for fixing this error.

Best,

Shelby 🙂

[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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