[Ofa_boardplus] Calendar difficulties

[Ken Strandberg]

The Time Zone setting for the web site was UTC-8. I set it to America/LA.
Please check and see if you're still having the same issue and let me know.

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 6:27 PM Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com> wrote:

> Yes.  From what I can tell, the ics and google calendar events in the OFA
> calendar are totally missing the parent timezone, so when you open the
> link, it always assumes the times are in your local timezone.  Since you
> are Mountain time, it's an hour off.  For me, if I open the links from the
> calendar, its off by three hours.  The actual meeting invites that go out
> to the ofa_boardplus mailing list have the appropriate timezone info, so
> those invites import into my calendar properly.  It just seems to be
> getting lost in the import to the calendar on the website.  Ken, can you
> confirm/fix if this is the case?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> >
> >
> > Apologies for what feels like a silly question, but I’ve been
> experiencing
> > some difficulties with the call schedule for several months now so I
> can’t
> > help but suspect that some part of the problem is real.
> >
> >
> >
> > When I subscribe to the OFA calendar using the web interface’s “.ics”
> link
> > for Outlook (either one), it appears I always get events that are an hour
> > earlier than they actually occur. If my arithmetic is correct, during the
> > summer this could be either because time zone information is being
> processed
> > incorrectly (as I happen to be in the Mountain time zone) or because
> > Daylight Saving Time is being processed incorrectly on one end of the
> > transaction.
> >
> >
> >
> > In May I manually added DST offsets to a downloaded copy, which worked
> well
> > for a time, but then I failed to notice when I reached the end of the
> > imported events and I started missing calls. Since I need to actively
> > subscribe to updates, this means I need a better solution to the time
> offset
> > problem.
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anybody else on the list experience this issue with Outlook and the
> > online calendar in a time zone other than Pacific?
> >
> >
> >
> > Phil Regier
> >
> > SNL Capacity & Visualization Systems Administration
> >
> > paregie at snl.gov
> >
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>
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> Doug Ledford <dledford at redhat.com>
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