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Auto-gen email/appointment to Outlook Calendar
My appointment scheduling application (Cold Fusion 9) generates an e-mail to the user with their appointment information. Everything works fine, except, the outlook calendar times are off for the users who use my application on Central Time Zone (St. Louis). My application / server (i believe) is EST. Those users get the correct outlook calendar time of their appointment. Not the St. Louis folks. Where do I start looking to fix this problem?
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Where in my ics-file do I place what you suggested? Still not working. The appointment times are off by an hour in the Outlook calendar. For ex. If my appointment is made for ME by someone in Central time, my appointment comes over with my local time (server). If the person in Central time makes an appointment for himself in Central time, his time is also off...its one hour earlier.
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:19700308T020000
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:19700308T020000
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seems like you will need to specify a timezone in the appointment, so that it gets correctly processed by the receiver, wherever they are.
either specify the time as UTC (ie GMT) by using a Z on the end,
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or by including the timezone on the file.
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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9505299/ics-file-issuesmy preference is the Zulu time, because it has less options to get wrong. And you controll the creation end, so can work out the equivalent time @ UTC easily i suspect