"floating" time

Running Leopard 10.5.1. When starting up from "sleep" the time floats up on screen, but it's not the right time. How can I correct it?

I've had same problems as many. I want all my appointments to stay put when I put them in .MAC and all my floating events get put in .MAC they then become fixed in the time zone of my computer. Which means that although I want a concert in Paris at 8pm on the 30th of September to show up at 8pm on that day, it shows up at the local time of the viewer. Since my viewers may be coming from all over the world to see a concert and may not be aware that the time shown is THEIR local time, it is very confusing for all. So I've abandoned using a shared .MAC calendar or even Google calendar, for that matter, to share information. It's very frustrating, as I don't see why things have to be made so difficult. It renders everything much more difficult for those of us who travel a lot of different places, and want to share appointments in ANOTHER city with someone who is in even another time zone. Why can't they just simplify it??? I've been asking for this for over a year. Debating getting rid of my .MAC subscription because of it.

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Sorry to have repeated this question as if I were answering it. Just a mistake. I'm just now learning how to use this site.

Floating Time Zones messed up in Mobile Me and Published Calendars

Having researched this for 3 years, I'm sure only Apple can answer this... but it would be very reassuring to know if others are frustrated with this too!
FLOATING TIME ZONES, incredibly, are not supported when PUBLISHING and SHARING iCAL!
I travel a lot. I store my flight times and appointment times. When I'm in one time zone I frequently want to share information about my schedule with people in other time zones. ALL I want is to store and share my calendar items with the relevant time in the place they occur. SO I use Floating Time Zones. (And of course usually set my Time and Date for the place I am in)
IF someone reading this learns whether anyone CARES about this - please let us know. There is no real iCal support anywhere else except here.
I have used a Mac for 20 years and this is the first time that Apple has let me down, with no hope in sight.

OK: I am in Geneva when I make my reservation to fly from NY to Los Angeles. I enter a single event: my flight with start time in NY and end time in LA. I enter a second event - a wedding in Los Angeles.
Now I'm in Istanbul and trying to make plans with family and friends. The folks in NY just want to know what time the wedding is in L.A., not what time it will be in NY when the event happens. The folks in Geneva just want to know what time my flight arrives in NY so they can talk intelligently about what time my rendezvous in Manhattan will be....
All I want is to have the freedom to ONLY EVER see the time in the time zone of the event. I want to be free when I travel to re-set the clock to show me the time of the place I am in, without that changing ANYTHING in my calendar display.
Similarly, no one else that I share my calendar cares wants to know what time something in another time zone corresponds to in the time zone they are in at the moment.
I think it should be simple, but I can't seem to do it. I just want to enter the times that I want for the beginning and ending of an event, and for it to ALWAYS to display the time I entered and NOTHING else... on my laptop... on Mobile Me... and when I publish with iCal...
Is it possible?

How to enter floating time zone in iPhone?

It is easy to enter a floating time zone in iCal, but I cannot find a way to enter a new appointment with a floating time zone directly into the iPhone. How is it done? I can find nothing on this in the iPhone Users Guide or on this forum.

That means that the iPhone calendar is NOT equivalent to iCal. This is a big issue for me since travel is part of my work. My alternative is a Palm device where all appointments are "floating." The problem with Palm is that the other functions are not in the iPhone's league. I feel marooned in a spot where no PDA has it all.

"floating" time zone

When i receive an invite from a different time zone, it adds it to the calendar with that time zone instead of mine and shows "floating" instead of the timezone... how do I solve this?

i should add this only happens on my ipad, not on my mac

Floating Date/Time in iCal Attachments

I've been using floating times for our ical attachments and they work great on every device/OS so far except for Blackberry devices. Apparently, Blackberry devices don't properly support the ical standard and interepret floating dates (i.e. w/out the UTC "Z" indicator and without a TZID) as UTC dates and convert them so it ends up being the wrong time on the user's calendar.
Anyone know if RIM plans on fully supporting the iCal standard to support floating times?
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BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
METHOD:REQUEST
PRODID:-//CompanyName//NONSGML SiteName//EN
BEGIN:VEVENT
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
DTSTART:20081009T080000
DTEND:20081009T103000
LOCATION:111 Main St\, Roseville\, CA 95747
DESCRIPTION:
SUMMARYummary
TRIGGER:-60M
UID:[email protected]
SEQUENCE:3
DTSTAMP:20081009T192822Z
PRIORITY:5
STATUS:CONFIRMED
ORGANIZER;CN="Test Co":MAILTO:[email protected]
ATTENDEE;CN="An attenddee":MAILTO:[email protected]
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Hi and welcome to the forums!
Is this in regards to MAC Icals?
If so, you may be better served to resolve this thread and
moving to the Blackberry's for MAC forum. I'm sure
You would get much more specific answers there.
I have attached what I could find on the subject.
Thanks
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB10501&sliceId=SAL_Pub...
http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB05175&sliceId=SAL_Pub...
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Printing Times in Month View

When I print a calendar in month view, some of the event times print, but some of them only print as an elipsis "..." This seems to happen arbitrarily, without any correlation to the length of the event description. So, some short descriptions have an elipsis for the time (even though there is plenty of room to print the time) and some long descriptions have the time. Does anyone know how to print a monthly view calendar so that the time prints for every event?
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9)

I'm troubleshooting the same problem for one of my clients. Not certain if this helps or not, but the elipsis "..." only seem to appear in events that are set to the "floating" time zone.
Still working on a solution (or work around)...

HELP - Need to be able to RESET ALL CALENDARS to "FLOATING" - How To ???

These two quotes are from the Apple Forums - they never received an Answer - my problem is IDENTICAL to these gentlemen:
"Hi all,
I'm just a guy who recently migrated from Palm Desktop and who doesn't like to be in Madrid, for example, only to see his Chicago appointments listed seven hours ahead. I've been managing time zones in my head my whole life and don't really need or want iCal to "help" me out with it.
That said, does anyone know of a script available or other method that will allow one to change all events in iCal to "floating"? I would prefer to not have to do this one event at a time.
Thanks much for your thoughts and insight.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)
tonyhj"
"Re: Question re. converting multiple events to floating time zone
Posted: Sep 9, 2006 4:25 PM in response to: Ryan Grub
I'm glad this topic is here, and sad that it hasn't generated any useful replies in almost 20 days! I really had to dig before I found this unanswered question!
I've posted my own - somewhat comparable - problem and possibly someone will notice and answer. My question, posted Sept 9, is entitled "Can I disable 'time zone' actions done by iCal?"
Back to me, Real Time, August 5th, 2007:
Does ANYONE have a solution for this? How to GLOABLLY set ALL EVENTS (or at least all events in a given Calendar) to FLOATING, including RETROACTIVELY all the way back to the very beginning of a Calendar (or even all of iCal) ???
Perhaps an Automator Script???
Help Please!!!
Running:
iCal 2.0.5, Powerbook G4, OS X 10.4.9
Thanks!

Turning off Time Zones does not even remotely address the problem. All that does is solve the issue of not continuing to repeat the problem in the future. But at this moment I have literally HUNDREDS (perhaps thousands) of past event entries that need to be accessed for legal reasons, and the date / time is Critically Important..... and all the dates and times are fubar due to this time zone issue. Only resetting the events (PAST) to "Floating" resolves the problem, but how to do this with hundreds (1000's) of Past Events Entries?
i.e. How to Globally RESET all events to "Floating"?

Different time zones in the same calendar subscription

Dear kind helpers,
To state my problem as clear as possible, I need to be a bit long. Sorry for that.
I registered to a calendar displaying the rugby schedule for the VI nations tournament:
-> http://www.rbs6nations.com/tools/calendars/sixnations-fixtures-6n-all.ics
from the official web site:
-> http://www.rbs6nations.com/en/matchcentre/downloadable_fixture_list.php
The only thing you need to know about this tournament is that it involves 6 teams (hence the name):
- 2 on the continent, then at GMT+1 (France and Italy),
- 4 on the British Isles (Englands, Walles, Scotland and Ireland), then at GMT+0
I think all of these nations have the same summer / winter shifts.
I'm on the continent, Central European Time for the time zone support feature on iCal (OS 10.9.1).
I guess it's GMT+1 plus winter shift at the moment.
I notice the same following problem on my iPod (iOs 5.1.1), sync through iCloud
Here the problem : it seems all the games are in local times !
For instance, a game in the Islands (Scotland, England, ...) appears at 5pm whereas I would like it to appear at 6pm (so the time is correctly displayed for British Isles, not for the continent) / a game on the continent (France or Italy) will appear at 5pm and I'm fine because it's right the correct time in my time zone. I've no idea how a game which takes place on the continent appears in the British Isles :-(
So a few questions :
- am I clear about the problem ?
- is it a problem from iCal or from the subscription itself ?
- in case it's iCal, is there a way to fix the trouble ?
PS : I experienced the same problem with an other subscription a few years ago ; it was also for a european championship schedule across different time zones displayed in the same calendar. This one was discontinued.
Thanks in advance.

Hi,
This is an issue with the subscription itself. The times for the events are set in 'floating' time and whatever time zone you use it iCal will show the event as being at that time local time (which obviously won't be right unless you are in the correct time zone).
I could post a more technical explanation if you like.
Best wishes
John M

IOS 5 calendar bug: Floating Appointments

This is a bug with iOS 5's calendar that you can reproduce yourself. This bug was not in iOS 4:
1. Enter an appointment into iCal on your Mac running Mac OS X 10.6.8.
2. Make the appointment a FLOATING appointment, which means that its time will ALWAYS stay the same, regardless of which time zone you are in.
3. Sync your calendar using MobileMe.
4. Now go to your iPhone 4 running iOS 5.0.1.
5. Sync your calendar using MobileMe.
6. Make sure your iPhone's calendar settings have Time Zone Support turned ON.
7. Go into your calendar, and look for your floating appointment.
8. On the MONTH view, your appointment looks JUST FINE! The times are correct!! However, if you try to EDIT THE EVENT, you will see the gigantic bug crop up: the times are completely & wildly off from your original floating times. If you try to modify the times, then you will only mess up the times on the month view even more. There is no way to get the iPhone's calendar appointments to accurately reflect the floating time on both the month view and when editing the appointment. It is completely off.

Thanks for the info, I gave it a try but am still having the same problem as I mentioned before.
I believe your issue is a bit different than mine. My 3 outlook canlanders are there, two of them are displaying (my wife's calendar and my work), however the primary calendar I use in outlook isn't displaying. It shows that it is selected, however none of my events are there. I'm able to add new events in this calendar just fine, but all of my events that were there prior to the upgrade in iOS aren't.
I've already checked settingings to make sure it syncs all old data also, but it still doesn't display events from my main calendar.
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HT4576 "Time Zone Support" in Calendars should be renamed to "Override Time Zone Support"

So, I live on the East coast and notice, while on a trip just outside Cupertino, that my iPhone Calendar wasn't updating to the the local time, even though my iPhone had correctly updated to PST.
Finally, at the end of my trip, oh so nigh to Cupertino, I find out that my Calendar's erroneous display of time was due to the "Time Zone Support" configuration option.
This is a GROSS misnomer.
iOS requires the specification of a timezone - else the time would be set arbitrarily and would waste the time (NTP) service provided by the cellular provider.
Thus, the "Time Zone Support" option under "Mail, Contacts, Calendars" should be relabeled to "Override Time Zone Support" AND the ability to assign an event to a time zone should always be available (though defaulting to the current time zone - unless a 'Default Time Zone' configuration option is added).

The behavior you are seeing is actually inherent in most calendar apps -- the deal is that you are telling your calendar when something happens, not what time. Our company writes a calendaring+task management app for iPhone called Pocket Informant - we get this same question on occassion, so I wrote up a Knowledge Base article discussing some details (keep in mind - this article discusses some features specific to our app that you won't find in iCal/Calendar on MacOS X):
http://webis.kayako.com/Knowledgebase/Article/View/123/0/why-do-the-times-change -on-my-appointments-when-i-travel-to-a-different-time-zone
In iCal/Calendar on MacOS X, when you turn on Time Zone support, you then get to choose the time zone that you are entering your appointment for. This helps you not have to do the "time zone math" in your head. Thus, if you are in CST and want to set up an appointment for 6pm PST, you can choose PST in the event editor as you enter 6pm. Note that while you are in CST, your event will display in your calendar at "CST time" (8pm), but when you fly out to PST, it will show the "correct" PST time.
While iCal/Calendar supports "floating time zones", I personally would caution against using them for everything (I mentioned a few reasons why in the above kbase article). Use those for events that truly are "time driven" rather than "point in time" driven (such as "I want to go jogging every morning at 5am no matter what time zone I'm in).
Hope that helps some!

Time Zone Management iCal and iPhone

I have a vacation coming up from California, to paris, to london, to Ireland, to Chicago,to Detroit and finally California. I think that's 5 time zones. I have all of the events schedule in times that would reflect the time zone that I will be in. But there are lots of settings in ical and the iphone (no/yes time zone support, floating time or time zone of the event.
How do you travelers set this stuff up and use it effectively?

A restore of my iphone solved my problem.

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Hi,
I have recently moved countries which are 8 hours apart.
I have had Time Zone Support turned on in iCal and my iOS devices. I also use Google Calendars.
If I try to switch time zones, all my appointments move by 8 hours. I don't need to know what the time is in other zones, I suppose what I want is the "floating" time zone.
I have tried to export and reimport my calendars but the time does not change correctly. Do I need to edit the .ics file in some way?
Thanks!

Hi,
If you need it I have a script to move all events in a calendar by a number of hours. See the script Offset iCal Events here.
Best wishes
John M
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ICals on OS X & iOS display different time for same event

I am in UTC+8 time zone. My boss is in UTC-5 time zone. I have set up sync service on my MBA and iPhone iCals with my company's MS Exchange Server.
I have a weekly meeting invitation from my boss, my MBA iCal displays this meeting on 10:30pm which is wrong, while my iPhone and MS Server displays 9:30pm which is corret - the meeting takes places on 9:30pm my time.
All my other iCal events are fine on both devices, only this weekly event displays different time. I have taken with MBA and iPhone to travel around the world over the past half year and switched time zones on them, but they are all set to adjust time zones automatically, and they are with most up-to-date system. Why does MBA iCal displays wrong time? Can I adjust it? This problem exisits on Lion and now also on M Lion.
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Try using floating time zones. It helped for me.

Ical time shows when looking at it but printed three dots show up

Just wondering if anybody could help me out. When I look at the calendar everything looks correct but when I print the time is not showing and three dots show up in front instead of the time any ideas.

This happens if the timezone for an event is "Floating". It doesn't matter if Timezone support (in iCal preferences) is enabled or not.
These are just my observations:
If TZ Support is OFF, and you manually create an event -- times will print. If you then enable TZ support, those events will become "floating".
If TZ support is ON, and you enter an event, TZ for that event will be filled in automatically, and time printing will work. If you change the event to a "floating" time, the time will not print.
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