{"id":1291449,"date":"2017-05-31T12:55:47","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T19:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/solution-for-issue-importing-ical-to-google-calendar-please-reply\/"},"modified":"2017-05-31T12:55:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T19:55:47","slug":"solution-for-issue-importing-ical-to-google-calendar-please-reply","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/solution-for-issue-importing-ical-to-google-calendar-please-reply\/","title":{"rendered":"Solution for issue importing ical to google calendar. Please reply"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Thank you,
\nStorm Rockwell
\nhello@storms.email
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