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Re: [O] Export Agenda to Google Calendar ICS Format


From: Arun Persaud
Subject: Re: [O] Export Agenda to Google Calendar ICS Format
Date: Mon, 05 May 2014 15:11:25 -0700
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Hi

On 05/05/2014 02:24 AM, Tory S. Anderson wrote:
> Cross-posted from 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23463962/emacs-export-calendar-bad-timezone-format-in-ics
> 
> Using orgmode I export my agenda to an ics file, upload it to my site, and 
> import it into Google calendar. This seems like an easy ideal solution, but 
> when I check the calendar I find that it is not recognizing the time zone of 
> my ics file and so is assuming GMT, making my imported times uselessly off. 
> The problem seems to be the same as the one described here:
> 
> http://blog.jonudell.net/2011/10/17/x-wr-timezone-considered-harmful/
> 
> Checking my exported ics, sure enough, it is using X-WR-TIMEZONE:EST, which 
> Google calendar does not respect. This must be a well-known problem, but I 
> haven't been able to locate a solution anywhere. Help would be appreciated: 
> how can I get the right time on my events (and they must be a feed; the "add 
> to calendar" trick is no good)?

I have this in my .emacs file to set the timezone.

(setq org-icalendar-timezone "America/Los_Angeles")

HTH

Arun



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