ICAL export wrong timezone / Daylight savings for Outlook

[Anonymous]

Noticing an issue with the ICAL export where the timezone is not being read correctly by outlook. I seem to have fixed this issue by adding single quotes around the timezone ‘America/Chicago’ in the ical php file. Has anyone else experienced this issue? Can a fix be implemented?

From what I can tell, just adding the single quotes to the following section, fixed the issue for me:

Changed the following lines in the file events-made-easy/eme_ical.php:

Changed FROM:

} else {

$res .= “DTSTART;TZID=$tzstring:$dtstart\r\n”;

$res .= “DTEND;TZID=$tzstring:$dtend\r\n”;

}

Changed TO:

} else {

$res .= “DTSTART;TZID=’$tzstring’:$dtstart\r\n”;

$res .= “DTEND;TZID=’$tzstring’:$dtend\r\n”;

}

[Franky]

Hi, the rfc doesn’t specify quotes for the timezone:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545
But I do find some other hints on the internet that outlook has issues if these are not quoted.
I could add an option to quote this for say outlook compatibility, but of course then other clients might not like it …

[Anonymous]

I tested gmail and iphone calendar and they were both ok with the quotes.

I would definitely appreciate the option!

[Franky]

Option added with these changesets:
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1417720/
and
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/1417723/

[Anonymous]

Thanks Franky!

I tested this code out and it worked great.

What version will this be implemented automatically into the plugin updates?

I’m showing we are on Version 1.6.13.

[Franky]

It will be in the next version 🙂

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