A Shared Outlook calendar shows wrong timezone in Google calendar.

Anonymous
2023-07-17T04:45:44+00:00

Shared Outlook calendar shows wrong timezone in Google calendar. Timezone when importing a shared Outlook calendar is wrong. When importing the link to the Google Calendar, the shared calendar settings says that the timezone is GMT+00:00 -- It's grayed out and I cannot change it. How can I correct this issue?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-01-22T19:52:52+00:00

    OK, so some of you are finding help with that OutlookGoogleCalendarSync tool and I'm really happy for you.

    That doesn't change the fact that those of us who are working in a Mac ecosystem and trying to manage the complexities of certain Outlook-only clients and other Google-only clients don't have a solution.
    In other words, if I've got a Mac I can't get around this silly time-zone-greyed-out issue...

    Google... Microsoft... whoever - this is disappointing. You have some of the most brilliant coding minds in your employ and you're leaving us stuck without a solution.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-01-26T09:55:30+00:00

    Didn't fix it for me either 😢

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-01-26T14:11:10+00:00

    did not change it for me

    the Exchange ics does contain TZ data.

    the question is now who doesn't adhere to the standard? MS or Google? I'd say Google has the better track history, but I did not check it in this case

    BEGIN:VCALENDAR 
    
    METHOD:PUBLISH 
    
    PRODID:Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 
    
    VERSION:2.0 
    
    X-WR-CALNAME:Calendar 
    
    BEGIN:VTIMEZONE 
    
    TZID:W. Europe Standard Time 
    
    BEGIN:STANDARD 
    
    DTSTART:16010101T030000 
    
    TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 
    
    TZOFFSETTO:+0100 
    
    RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 
    
    END:STANDARD 
    
    BEGIN:DAYLIGHT 
    
    DTSTART:16010101T020000 
    
    TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 
    
    TZOFFSETTO:+0200 
    
    RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 
    
    END:DAYLIGHT 
    
    END:VTIMEZONE 
    
    BEGIN:VTIMEZONE 
    
    TZID:Greenwich Standard Time 
    
    BEGIN:STANDARD 
    
    DTSTART:16010101T000000 
    
    TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 
    
    TZOFFSETTO:+0000 
    
    END:STANDARD 
    
    BEGIN:DAYLIGHT 
    
    DTSTART:16010101T000000 
    
    TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 
    
    TZOFFSETTO:+0000 
    
    END:DAYLIGHT 
    
    END:VTIMEZONE 
    
    BEGIN:VEVENT
    

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-02-06T14:11:57+00:00

    Google points the finger at MS in this case. This issue on the google forums has this posted:

    "I've run some tests and it seems your problem is in fact the TZID that Outlook is using: DTSTART;TZID=Central Europe Standard Time:20240120T090000The TZID "Central Europe Standard Time" is not on the official list:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones#Time_Zone_abbreviations

    The correct TZID (for me) is "Europe/Paris"."

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-02-12T14:39:24+00:00

    Google points the finger at MS in this case. This issue on the google forums has this posted:

    "I've run some tests and it seems your problem is in fact the TZID that Outlook is using: DTSTART;TZID=Central Europe Standard Time:20240120T090000The TZID "Central Europe Standard Time" is not on the official list:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones#Time_Zone_abbreviations

    The correct TZID (for me) is "Europe/Paris"."

    I wrote a small proxy app that fetches my Outlook calendar, replaces all instances of "Central Europe Standard Time" and "Romance Standard Time" with the corresponding (and standard) TZID "Europe/Paris", then serves it as a .ics to Google Calendar, but it didn't look any different next to the events from the original Outlook calendar. Maybe I'm missing something? Or maybe the calendar defines arbitrary timezones in the vcal headers and the names don't matter?

    Either way, while you might be onto something, subscribing to the original Outlook URL in Apple Calendar and the macOS Fantastical app both result in displaying the events at the correct time, so I'd venture out and say Google Calendar is at fault here.

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