ICal & Timezones

I'm based in LA but am in Shanghai, China for 2 months. I've changed the time zone on my Mac and now all the LA appointments in iCal have gotten messed up. I know that iCal has a feature called "Time Zone Support", but I hate that because everytime you make a new event you have 2 more things to toggle with, when the majority of the time I'm in LA. From the last time I played with it, there were no default settings for "Time Zone Support". Is there any simple fix for this? I really cannot believe that Apple does not provide more customization options for iCal given all the development with their other products. And I'm assuming that many who travel with the Macbooks have encountered this problem.
Any info much appreciated!
Alexander

Ah OK. I understand. And sorry, I was wrong with my previous post about the GMT-1 thing - it should have been GMT+1 = BST and GMT+2 = CET. But I am sure you know that!
Anyway, back to your problem:
It is almost certainly to do with the system that is sending you the invitation. Many applications are ambiguous with time zone data. If you have the invitation still, you could try looking at in TextEdit to see what it says. You are looking for a line that's something like "DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20070321T200000"
I can't guess what it might be because my expectation would be that if the time zone can't be determined it might default to GMT, but that should still show the time in your calendar as LATER rather than EARLIER.
Sorry I can't be any more precise!

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ICal Timezone support - Birthday off by one day.

I always used iCal's timezone support. I had it on since day one I got my computer running. I have been using the birthday calendar function for all my address book contacts' birthdays as well.
I have just moved from Vancouver (GMT -7) to Japan (GMT +9), and now all my contact's birthday is off by one day. I tried turning off the iCal timezone support but not much happened.
What can I do?

I've had this same issue 2 times now (I'm also on the same setup as you).
What has worked for me is the workaround listed here:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070313180838582
To simplify, copy the script shown in the last post into a text file called:
correctBirthdays (no file extension such as .txt is necessary)
and save it into your home directory. Once you've done that:
1. Back up your Address Book with the 'File > Back up Address Book...' menu item
2. Open the Terminal application
3. In Terminal, type *chmod 755 correctBirthdays* to make the script executable.
4. Type *./correctBirthdays -1* and hit enter. If you're coming back from Japan, you'll want to use 1 instead of -1 to move the birthdays forward instead of back a day.
5. That's it. Terminal will report how many birthdays were corrected.
I'm guessing that this problem has been fixed in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and that's why musicale can't reproduce the issue.
Hope this helps!
(and I take no responsibility if you mess something up! It should work though.)
Rafael

ICal Timezone Selection and Naming

A few OS revisions past timezones were named with some at times distant association to UTC standards and could be attached to an event. Type in Eastern Standard or just Eastern and up came timezones with that in their name. Simple right, if you knew the name of the timezone you were planning the event for? Seems reasonable, if you are scheduling events for different time zones you might, nay probably, knew the name of the timezone. Or could easily find it online.
As I recall you could also type the name of a city like Cleveland or Stockton, or even some more obscure places like Vienna or Paris, and get the same results.
Apple changed it, to remove any confusing references to actual standard timezone names when selecting, ahem, a timezone. Nor can you select by offset from UTC (0) known to most as GMT, which was also an available choice.
One currently has to name a city or large town that Apple has deemed worthy of inclusion, and while shock of shocks the US database of cities, towns and hamlets is fairly well populated, those outside the US appear to have been selected by a bored intern who snuck a bottle of beer in armed with a dart and a word map.
Requiring one examine, from an example I prepared earlier, the map of Western Australia searching for a town that appears significant enough to perhaps have been included in said timezone popup menu by Apple that is also located near Grass Patch (look it up), and hopefully happens to be in the same timezone is an exercise in almost random guesswork. Take a look at a timezone map of Australia if you think they are all stacked neatly side-by-side with borders as straight and dull as a Texas town main street.
I own a computer to avoid error inducing, repetitive, dull activities that could better be done by a well trained pidgeon. It is, obviously I suppose, very irritating and ironic that it was a desire to avoid such errors that was the reason one turned on timezone support in the first place.
You also have to know in advance, or try possibilities at random, the name town or city hoping that it appears in the Apple town-or-city-name-apparently-chosen-at-f*****g-random-and-associated-with-a-tim ezone popup menu in your effort to select the same timezone as your event attendee. Proximity does not guarantee a town is the same timezone after all. Often a distant town or city in the Apple popup will be in the same timezone, while one nearby is not. But you cannot know for certain without trawling through the internet and wikpedia to work this out because most maps do not include delineations of the various timezones.
In this case Apple has made a mistake in deciding what not to do. Removing a perfectly usable, well not perfectly but better than this, existing system in place as an option was an error.
By removing standard UTC codes, or something approximating them (you know the international standard naming convention for timezones that has been abandoned in an application trumpeting its adoption of standards), instead of just leaving them available alongside the calendrical equivalent of Soma, may, may, have made the system easier for people unfamiliar with timezones. But I doubt it, it is more likely to guarantee continued ignorance based on increased confusion engendered by use of a system providing no pattern or framework for understanding the concept of timezones, and it is a pain in the rear for anyone else.
It also is part of a trend previously only inflicted on Windows users routinely of attempting to make things simpler for more people while making it impossible or more difficult to someone who knows what they are doing. I have no objection to providing simpler alternatives, just stop taking away more elegant if intellectually "demanding" ones already in existence.
Looking up what city is nearby in the hope it is on the magic list for every one horse town a client might live in instead of just being able to type one of the Australian UTC standard timezones as provided by the client, or pick an offset of +8 hours in the above example is patronising, absurd, time consuming, and prone to errors.
Is there anyway I can use the terminal to edit the pop up list of time zones or substitute a different one referenced by iCal? Or to restore something resembling a standard pop up list ordered by offset from UTC 0, otherwise known as GMT? If I could simply pick an offset of -8, or +5 hours, as examples, life would be a lot happier in iCal. Because even if I have to determine some offsets, as in the WA example above, doing so is as simple as typing "What is the time in <insert name of obscure s******e here> <name of country here> in my browser bar and hitting Enter.
Yes I know that means I may have to do addition or subtraction, but I have the Apple Calculator for anything over 2, and somehow it has been spared any attempts to simplify its use.

I've had this same issue 2 times now (I'm also on the same setup as you).
What has worked for me is the workaround listed here:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070313180838582
To simplify, copy the script shown in the last post into a text file called:
correctBirthdays (no file extension such as .txt is necessary)
and save it into your home directory. Once you've done that:
1. Back up your Address Book with the 'File > Back up Address Book...' menu item
2. Open the Terminal application
3. In Terminal, type *chmod 755 correctBirthdays* to make the script executable.
4. Type *./correctBirthdays -1* and hit enter. If you're coming back from Japan, you'll want to use 1 instead of -1 to move the birthdays forward instead of back a day.
5. That's it. Terminal will report how many birthdays were corrected.
I'm guessing that this problem has been fixed in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and that's why musicale can't reproduce the issue.
Hope this helps!
(and I take no responsibility if you mess something up! It should work though.)
Rafael

ICal timezone issues

I have my timezone set up as eastern time on all my devices (MBP, ipad, iphone). I have (among other entries with the same problem) a recurring entry that was at 9am, when I went to Hawaii for vacation and changed the time zone, it showed up as 3am (correctly), now that I am back and have changed my timezones in all devices including mobileme to eastern again these entries are still in the HI time zone. When I click on it to edit it opens up and correctly the time shows as 9am, Save it and it shows back up again as 3am. Again all timezones are set for Eastern time zones .... what gives????
I don't understand this.
Please help.

Hi,
It sounds like the event is in Hawaii time and iCal is set in Eastern Time.
When you open the event does it have a time zone field? What is it set to? In iCal's main window what does itbsay in the top right?
Best wishes
John M

ICal timezone : set floating as default

This is the biggest headache I have ever had with a Mac and I am really fed up. Why is it not possible to simple set "Floating" as a timezone preference in iCal?. My appointments get thrown out of whack every time I change the timezone in Date & Time. I have missed appointments because of this. Never mind trying to synch to iPhone. MAKE IT STOP!

I posted this to a user that wants floating events on his iPhone. It also helps with laptops. OK it is not as good as those arrogant #^% @#(%*#$% at Apple not listening to us for 3 years asking for this, but it is the best I can do.
This might work. Create a whole lot of floating events in iCal on your laptop / desktop and put them at the end of your day. You can do this quickly by creating one event in iCal that is floating and then copying it. You do that by dragging the event with your finger on the Option Key. This gives you floating events in your iCal which you are not using yet. Then when you want to use your iPad just drag one of these events from the end of the day to where you want it and use it.
It should work. I tested it just now on my iPad and laptop and it worked perfectly. I use Lion as an operating system. I don't know for Leopard. I use a weekly view. On Lion you cannot drag from the end of one week into the next. This has been corrected in Lion. I use ONLY floating events as I travel a LOT. It is the best way for me.
For creating floating events on my laptop I don't create new events, I always copy an existing event. This way all new events are automatically floating. It took a little while to get used to it. Now it is second nature to me. Since many events are the same as past events, it also saves time not typing in the event details.
For example I might schedule playing badminton at irregular times in a week. I simply create one event and then drag a copy to the new event's locaiton. It is already floating and named correctly. Otherwise I drag a different event and just rename it.
This does not work on the iPhone / iPad / iPod as you cannot copy events. That is why you need to create extra floating events on your laptop at the end of the day so that you can drag them down when you want to use them.

ICal GMT bug

I prefer to use google calendar at work, since iCal does not work on Government Networks. But I like having iCal for its printing capabilities. Solution... I create everything in google calendar and I have it sync to my iCal. Problem:
iCal changes all my events originally created in google calendar to GMT time, so everything is about 5 hours off. I searched the web for answers and got nothing other then alot of unresolved complaints. I tried switching my google calendar timezones around to different countries and re-importing everything into the iCal, but this did not work. So I tried the opposite by changing my iCal timezone to different countries, then deleted and re-imported my google calendar. No dice. I even selected and deselected Timezone support in the settings of iCal, and repeated the early process.
If you guys could fix this issue, it would be greatly appreciated and probably save my life! If its not fixed my loyalties to apple will get swaded by google and windows.

This is a relatively new issue for me on my phone which I've had for well over a year, so I agree that this is an iOS operating issue (I am on iOS 8.1.2).
I found something that works (for me). All of my iCalendar appointments sync through gmail. The issue has been that on my iphone, the appointments can be seen as EST (my time zone) and GMT is visible if I click on the event to view all the details. If I go to edit it, the time changes to GMT. Since I'm never quite sure of the difference between EST and GMT, it makes it tough to change an appointment to the correct time (if the appointment needs to be edited).
After searching around on forums, I couldn't find a relevant answer. The ONLY thing that I do to fix it for me was go to settings on my phone, go to the iCloud section, Share location, and click it on. Ever since then, the GMT has disappeared from my calendar.
My other settings which may or may not be relevant: 1) On iCloud setting, I have Calendars turned off (I use google calendar, so why share with iCloud?); 2) I have Time Zone override (in Calendars section) turned off.
I have no idea what will happen when I travel to another time zone, but I am happy for now!

Maddening problem - Timezone and published calendar

OK folks, this is the problem:
I'm publishing a calendar on .mac. All of my entries on .mac are 7 hours later than I've set them in iCal, even through my iCal timezone and my system preferences timezone are the same (Europe/Lodon). The published timezone on the browser page also claims to be Europe/London, so why on Earth are the times different?
Any ideas? Big thanks to anyone who can help...

I spent something like 6 hours last week trying to tweak things in the .ics file to sort this out and came away with nothing.
Short of writing a script to change the actual time, I'm at a loss.
Before going the script route, I'm going to play with changing the .ics file to a vCal file and see if that helps.
What I found most frustrating is that if I took the .ics file and stripped out all references to time zone, I still ended up with an event that shifts time. With no reference to time (including the 'z' which the specification details as an indicator of UTC), I'm at a loss as to understand the shift.
The GroupWise server does use a timezone designation, so my only other guess is that it automatically assumes UTC for any file without a timezone attributed to it and then adjusts accordingly. Perhaps if I can figure out why "my" Pacific time zone isn't recognized by the server, I'll have an answer.
I can't seem to find good documentation on the GroupWise end, but it obviously sounds similar. Maybe looking outside the .ics spec is the answer. I found reference on the MS site to using vCal, so maybe there is hope.

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Hi,
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BEGIN:VCALENDAR
METHOD:REQUEST
PRODID:Microsoft CDO for Microsoft Exchange
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:(GMT+08.00) Kuala Lumpur/Singapore
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-TZID:21
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:16010101T000000
TZOFFSETFROM:+0800
TZOFFSETTO:+0800
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:16010101T000000
TZOFFSETFROM:+0800
TZOFFSETTO:+0800
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20071218T084219Z
DTSTART;TZID="(GMT+08.00) Kuala Lumpur/Singapore":20071219T160000
SUMMARY:Weekly review meeting
UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E0080000000070ACBCF49441C801000000000000000
01000000015190A510761274093491F9C6F37F024
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=TRUE;CN="jessica":MAILT O:xxx
ORGANIZER;CN="xxx":MAILTO:xxx
LOCATION:NSN
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DESCRIPTION:Agenda :
SEQUENCE:0
PRIORITY:5
CLASS:
CREATED:20071218T084553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20071218T084553Z
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:0
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNERAPPTID:1230161879
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:0
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ATTENDEE-CRITICAL-CHANGE:20071218T084219Z
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNER-CRITICAL-CHANGE:20071218T084219Z
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ACTION:DISPLAY
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TRIGGER;RELATED=START:-PT00H15M00S
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hi
my timezone is GMT+8 and is set as such in Date & Time (10.4.7). I have Timezone support on in ICal Version 2.0.3 (1058). I also set the current timezone to asia/Singapore in ical. Meeting requests sent to me from Entourage which are also set to GMT + 8 turn up 8 hours late. The same meeting request however turns up at the correct time in outlook.
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--B3242205558761762
Content-Type: text/calendar;method=REQUEST;
charset="US-ASCII";name="meeting.ics"
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BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Entourage Mac 11.0 MIMEDIR//EN
METHOD:REQUEST
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TZID:Kuala Lumpur, Singapore
X-ENTOURAGE-TZID:40
X-ENTOURAGE-CFTIMEZONE:Asia/Singapore
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZNAME:Standard Time
TZOFFSETFROM:+0800
TZOFFSETTO:+0800
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:F3A0C9FC-4DCF-11DB-BE7A-0016CB8D7BAA
X-ENTOURAGE_UUID:F3A0C9FC-4DCF-11DB-BE7A-0016CB8D7BAA
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DTEND;TZID="Kuala Lumpur, Singapore":20061004T110000
LAST-MODIFIED:20060927T043900Z
SUMMARY:......
LOCATION:E1-5G
ORGANIZER:MAILTO:....
SEQUENCE:2
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;RSVP=TRUE;CN="...
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:0
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ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:REMINDER
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END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
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Hi- this did not help.
I also have another example from Microsoft CDO for Microsoft Exchange. Still the same probelm- the alarm appears 8 hours late, despite the timezone being correct on both the sender's and receiver's machines.
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
METHOD:REQUEST
PRODID:Microsoft CDO for Microsoft Exchange
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:(GMT+08.00) Kuala Lumpur/Singapore
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-TZID:21
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DTSTART:16010101T000000
TZOFFSETFROM:+0800
TZOFFSETTO:+0800
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UID:040000008200E00074C5B7101A82E00800000000A022A12D0EE3C601000000000000000
ORGANIZER;CN="...
LOCATION:...
DTEND;TZID="(GMT+08.00) Kuala Lumpur/Singapore":20061003T133000
DESCRIPTION:\N
SEQUENCE:0
PRIORITY:5
CLASS:
CREATED:20060928T065557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20060928T065558Z
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:0
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNERAPPTID:-1543727146
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:0
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ATTENDEE-CRITICAL-CHANGE:20060928T065546Z
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-OWNER-CRITICAL-CHANGE:20060928T065546Z
BEGIN:VALARM
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:REMINDER
TRIGGER;RELATED=START:-PT00H15M00S
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
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VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
PRODID:-//Starfield Technologies, Inc.//Stg GCal//3.1.09_caldav r7160//EN
METHOD:REQUEST
X-WR-CALNAME:Calendar
X-APPLE-CALENDAR-COLOR:
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT30M
X-WR-CALDESCRIPTION:Calendar
X-LIC-LOCATION:
X-WR-TIMEZONE:
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TZID:US/Eastern
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZNAME:US/Eastern
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
DTSTART:19700101T000000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZNAME:US/Eastern
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
DTSTART:19700101T000000
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UID:daylighttime0000000001
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DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20100330T123000
SUMMARY:Daylight Time
DESCRIPTION:
LOCATION:
SEQUENCE:0
CREATED:20100324T164133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20100324T164133Z
STATUS:CONFIRMED
TRANSP:OPAQUE
CLASS:PUBLIC
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:standardtime0000000001
DTSTAMP:20100324T164601Z
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20100302T120000
DTEND;TZID=US/Eastern:20100302T123000
SUMMARY:Standard Time
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LOCATION:
SEQUENCE:0
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LAST-MODIFIED:20100324T164239Z
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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CLASS:PUBLIC
END:VEVENT
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When syncing this into iCal with timezone support enabled and the timezone set to Mountain Standard Time these events show up at 10am (two hour offset) and should be 10am in standard and 9am in daylight. When iCal is set to Pacific time the events show up at 9am in standard and 10am in daylight when they should both be showing 9am.
So, is this a problem with the ICS data that's coming across or iCal's interpretation of the timezone name? The fact that this same ICS data appears correctly on the iPhone and in Google's calendar leads me to believe that iCal is doing something incorrectly.

I have experienced the same problem Seems to be a mail issue rather than an ical issue as any import into ical other than double clicking in mail (or automatically importing) works fine. I have totally reinstalled OS 10.8 ( and dealth with the resulting challenges of getting everything synced back up again) and the problem has resurfaced within 24 hours
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I searched a bunch of different timezones until I found the right one, but now I've got some timezones sitting around that I don't want, and I just wanna know if I can delete some off of this list. Thanks :) (iCal 4.0.4)

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