ICS file missing timezone info!

Scoutbook New Calendar Bugs
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So was this fixed lol? Like did anything change or did the ticket just get closed out and locked after 7 days lol ? I’m a webmaster/ninja/pirate if y’all need anything

Calendar: ICS file missing timezone info!
Scoutbook
New Calendar Bugs
RobertMcCurdy1
Jan 12

So looking at the .ics file spec I don’t know what one we need but we are missing these … its

X-WR-TIMEZONE
TZID
X-LIC-LOCATION

so I think the timezone setting in the pack should be pulled and it should add X-WR-TIMEZONE to match … when you import from google it assumes your local … but godaddy I can’t find for the life of me where to set that … and it worked before because I assume the old ics calendars had timezone info

Example with proper timezone info … X-WR-TIMEZONE and X-LIC-LOCATION is set and the even has a DTSTART;TZID=“America/Los_Angeles”:20160206T074400 and DTEND;TZID=“America/Los_Angeles”:20160206T084400

I think at minium the fix would be add X-WR-TIMEZONE and X-LIC-LOCATION and proper spec should allow for each even to have its own start and stop timezone … I’m sure you folks get on planes and as you move around the timezone settings will adjust if properly set on the calendar

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 19.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:19700308T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:19701101T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
SUMMARY:Appointment
LOCATION:Pune
DESCRIPTION:Your appointment Details:\n\nPatient Details:Kou Kul\nKeven\n\nAppointment Type:Counselling (30 min)\n\nThanks.
DTSTART;TZID=“America/Los_Angeles”:20160206T074400
DTEND;TZID=“America/Los_Angeles”:20160206T084400
PRIORITY:5
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

@tephen_Hornak
@ChristopherCamacho
@Matt.Johnson
@jacobfetzer

Reference:

@ChristopherCamacho - well it is pulling from the same database.
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@RobertMcCurdy1 - well the url subscription is presenting the correct times for our unit g-cal subscriptions. We are using the new calendar url links.

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@RobertMcCurdy1 Remind me what your personal calendar is? iPhone? Google?

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@RobertMcCurdy1 - here is data from our url:

BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:5472494@advancements.scouting.org
DTSTAMP:20240504T143948Z
CREATED:20231022T194839Z
ORGANIZER:Stephen Hornak
DTSTART:20240628T130000Z
DTEND:20240706T170000Z
SUMMARY:Iceland Trip
DESCRIPTION:Iceland Trip
URL:Internet Advancement
LOCATION:Úlfljótsvatn
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:5679936@advancements.scouting.org
DTSTAMP:20240504T143948Z
CREATED:20240218T170928Z
ORGANIZER:Stephen Hornak
DTSTART:20240629T000000Z
DTEND:20240629T101500Z
SUMMARY:Flight to Iceland
DESCRIPTION:Flight From Newark to KEF

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FYI Posts on this forum are not ‘tickets’. Volunteers do not have access to the actual ticketing system with BSA IT. The only way to get a formal ticket created is through a paid member of your council staff.

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When it comes to Scoutbook and Scoutbook plus, this is a valid way to report bugs. The volunteers of the SUAC can report them to the developers who add it to their backlog. If it’s something that should be treated as high priority, your council could influence that.

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