Timezone in .ics invitation incorrectly taken into iCal

Hello,
With my iPad I receive .ics calender invitations. The invitations that I send from my company computer to my iPad are all 6 hours off.
So I receive an invitation for a meeting 2-3pm EST and it displays at 8-9pm in my iPad when I am about to accept it. So the iPad is in middle-european time. I have checked and tried all the settings for calendar, and I haven't seen any improvent.
Oddly, when I open the same calendar invitation on my Mac, it is put correctly at 2-3pm in my calendar.
Does anyone know what is going on?
Thanks!

I have the same problem. When I accepted an ICS invitation from Kansas, it went onto my cal in their time (one hour behind me); when I accepted an ICS invitation from Spain, it went into my calendar in their time (six hours ahead of me).
This happens from both my iPhone (IOS v6.1.3) and iMac (OSX v10.8.3).
I see similar but not this exact problem spread around the different Apple Communities.
Is there any resolution to this?

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Since I moved to iCloud I have a problem with accepting .ics invitations, which I receive as attachments in Mail. Double clicking a "Mail Attachment.ics" file in Mail adds it to iCal, which after a moment responds with the following dialog: "https://p-02.caldav.icloud.com:443/102203399/principal/ is not a location that supports this request." Two buttons: "Go Offline" or "Revert to Server"
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This is an older thread but I am still having the same problem.
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We use Google Apps mail for our work email server. I have MAIL 100% working with my email address, and iCal is also synched with my Google Calendar on my MBA and iPhone.
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I have attached photos for how the meeting shows up in my iCal (as you can see, my name still has a question mark and no forms of clicking it allow me to ACCEPT/DECLINE etc.). I have also attached photos from the iPhone (shows the meetings show up, but only in grey-dashed-format)
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