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I then feed it into our Google Calendar and embed it into our www.pack802.rocks site. That shows it as 5PM - 8AM. One hour off. Could be daylight savings? By then we’ll “spring forward” but should that make it off 1 hour now?
These two devices have Exchange which shows calendar items the same, and it’s never otherwise been an issue, so I don’t think it’s a device setting.
Someone mentioned, “What fixed it for us (in Indiana) was to turn off the setting to automatically set time zone based on location and then manually set it to New York Eastern Time plus a browser restart.” But I don’t see where that’s an option. In calendar.google.com I removed the feed and added it again, but the time zone is fixed with no way of changing it.
@DavidO - if scoutbook is showing the correct time, then you are outside of its settings… do not suspect a bug there. Since various devices show different times then something is up between them.
One thing can note is if I am in edit mode on our google site then the times on all events will be waaayyyy off until i exit edit mode and view from a different browser.
We’ve not had luck tracking down the owner of the old .US site.
Just because it’s correct in the on screen display doesn’t mean that the iCal feed is correct. But it is showing correctly in my logged in calendar.google.com desktop view also, so I assume it’s not the feed either.
But others have run into the same issue and the specific fix wasn’t listed, so that’s what I’m hoping for.
@DavidO - i understand what you are saying but i truly doubt it is a scoutbook bug. This may take some time to sort out but again i doubt it is a scoutbook issue.
@DavidO - oh man i am in for a long pack meeting… but i see that camping trip starting at 6pm as the scoutbook grab shows. So there is something up with how your devices gather time.
The March pack meeting is Friday 7pm
Wait… your calendar is showing saturday March 5… you should be behind my current time
@DavidO - yeah exactly… aaarrrggg… let me think on this… I don’t want to keep both of us up all night… although based on how you are seeing dates and times…
You know you are seeing things as UK time… i think… dang
That’s good… mostly. It does seem like the issue is probably specific to the iCal/Google then. I know that’s where you started. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work as simply as it may appear. The SB UI uses your device timezone for display and converts the event to CT in order to store in the DB. Then, the email reminders convert it to the timezone in your edit Pack page. I’ve seen plenty of times when people saw the right time on their device but the event was actually saved incorrectly since the SB picked up the wrong TZ from the device. All of that seems to be working since you consistently see the same time for the UI and emails.
Unfortunately, I’m not as versed as others in how the iCal feeds embed into Google calendars. I know Stephen has done this before. Hopefully, he has some other ideas.
