{"id":1588612,"date":"2018-08-02T08:01:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/outlook-ics-import-not-working-correctly-dates-all-wrong\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T08:01:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T15:01:43","slug":"outlook-ics-import-not-working-correctly-dates-all-wrong","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/outlook-ics-import-not-working-correctly-dates-all-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Outlook ICS import not working correctly &#8211; dates all wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using the event aggregator plugin on a number of ICS files, and am running into issues on all of them. Two seem to be treating timezones incorrectly, which I&#8217;m continuing to look into.<\/p>\n<p>However, the biggest issue is the attached ICS which works correctly when I import into Calendar on my Mac, but event start and end dates are randomly completely wrong when importing into Events Calendar.<\/p>\n<p>For example, this record:<\/p>\n<p>SUMMARY:Amelia Edwards &#8211; AL<br \/>\nDTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180716<br \/>\nDTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180804<\/p>\n<p>Should start on 16 July and end on 4 August, however, the event created has the dates 2 August &#8211; 21 August.<\/p>\n<p>It was imported on 2 August, so would this be the issue? It sees a multi day event, and can&#8217;t set that to start in the past, so instead sets start date today and duration remains the same?<\/p>\n<p>This seems like a bug?<\/p>\n<p>Further, my events from this and other feeds have the correct start and end times (eg. 8am &#8211; 9am), but the timezone associated is incorrect, so when displayed in my timezone (Australia\/Melbourne), they display at incorrect times (eg. 1am &#8211; 2am). What&#8217;s the best fix for this?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>\nXavier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1588612","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Outlook ICS import not working correctly - dates all wrong -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/outlook-ics-import-not-working-correctly-dates-all-wrong\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Outlook ICS import not working correctly - dates all wrong -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, I&#8217;m using the event aggregator plugin on a number of ICS files, and am running into issues on all of them. 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