CUNY Academic Commons

I think this might have something to do with Daylight Savings Time.

On the Commons, under "Settings > General", we have the timezone set to UTC-4; we should set the timezone to "America/New York" and this should fix the problem.

If this doesn't immediately fix the problem, we'll have to clear the cache so Event Organiser sees the new timezone.

Steve, can you verify that the first of these (event-organise_2015-08-25.ics) is the one that does not work? I just changed the timezone setting and reexported the ICS file, but the file itself is identical to yours aside from the generated date.

Boone,
Actually, it's *.ics-2 that does not work. It creates a meeting on my local Calendar for August 28 at 2:00 pm.

*.ics creates a meeting for November 20 at 1:00 pm. If you go to the Subcommittee Group and look at the Events, both meetings appear there scheduled at 1:00 pm. Where did you change the Time Zone?

I can verify that the problem is with the August entry (the second ICS file), not the November one. Sorry!

However, changing the timezone in the WP admin dashboard to "America/New York" should have fixed the issue.

After looking into this a bit more, the reason is Event Organiser tries to be "smart" by converting UTC-offset timezones over to their city-equivalent. Unfortunately, in EO, UTC-4 translates over to "America/Porto Acre", which is currently using UTC-5.

Steve, can you re-download the ICS file for the August event and see if that fixes things?

Where did you change the Time Zone?

Event Organiser doesn't currently have the ability to set the timezone for specific events. EO relies on the global WordPress timezone setting at the moment.

Update: Added an issue to the Event Organiser repo - https://github.com/stephenharris/Event-Organiser/issues/287

Ray,
It's looking to me like a Daylight Savings issue. August is still wrong as are September, October and May. However, December, January and February are all downloading correctly.

Hi Steve,

I just cleared the cache. Can you try again?

I just downloaded the ICS file for the August event and I'm getting 5pm UTC (1pm Eastern).