Is There a Workaround for lack of Olsen TZ TZID Format in ICS File

Question

I recently had a problem with an ICS file that I received in email. My copy of Outlook 2010 would not recognize the timezone correctly. Here is the way that the start time o

Answer 1

Suppose the questioner lives in Los Angeles and uses OUTLOOK2010. And 20110928T183000 Start time is based on PDT If you want to make meeting successful, You add Meeting appointment item, contact, and google map URL Address phone open time in description. Of course, meeting item should add Organizer and Attendee, but it is so hard to set. And about 75 octet carriage return and inserting space is difficult. So only set organizer and attendee write in description.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 12.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:19700308T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:19701101T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110928T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110928T203000
LOCATION:meeting room in Los Angeles
Description:maps link \nhttp... \n phone \n open at 10:00:AM(PDT)
UID:ev1
ORGANIZER;CN="ThisMeeting Orginizer":mailto:meetingorginer@example.com
Contact:meetingsupport@example.com
DTSTAMP:20111001T105433Z
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR