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    <p>I've had some luck getting outlook to accept my .ics files via email and interpret them as calendar invites but I'm running into problems with time zones.</p> <p>Initially, I discovered that if all my dates are supplied in UTC, Outlook does the right thing (the right thing being to convert the times to my system's time zone setting when it displays the event). Here's the iCalendar file:</p> <pre><code>BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:REQUEST PRODID:-//ddaysoftware.com//NONSGML DDay.iCal 1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE;CN=MIke;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;CUTYPE=IND IVIDUAL;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:mike@host.com DESCRIPTION:df DTEND:20120924T230000Z DTSTAMP:20120924T221102Z DTSTART:20120924T223000Z LAST-MODIFIED:20120924T221102Z ORGANIZER;CN=Buddy Boy:MAILTO:buddyboy@host.com SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:dasdfasdf UID:cfa64be5-e731-4209-bef9-bf178432ae57 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR </code></pre> <p>Unfortunately, when I add a recurring event, for some reason outlook won't do this. So, I tried to add a time zone to my iCalendar file using:</p> <pre><code>_calendar.AddTimeZone(myTimeZone); </code></pre> <p>The odd thing is that the attachment shows up as "not supported calendar event.ics", however when I open the attachment, Outlook interprets the file just fine (for the most part).</p> <p>Here's the iCalendar file:</p> <pre><code>BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:REQUEST PRODID:-//ddaysoftware.com//NONSGML DDay.iCal 1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18000101 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=10;BYMONTHDAY=25,26, 27,28,29,30,31 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:18000101 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=4;BYMONTHDAY=1,2,3,4 ,5,6,7 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070101 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11;BYMONTHDAY=1,2,3, 4,5,6,7 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070101 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3;BYMONTHDAY=8,9,10, 11,12,13,14 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT ATTENDEE;CN=MIke;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=TENTATIVE;CUTYPE=IND IVIDUAL;RSVP=TRUE:MAILTO:mike@host.com DESCRIPTION:sadf DTEND:20120924T190000 DTSTAMP:20120924T221645Z DTSTART:20120924T183000 LAST-MODIFIED:20120924T221645Z ORGANIZER;CN=Buddy Boy:MAILTO:buddyboy@host.com SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:sdfadsfadsf UID:61a57e06-7b6c-41fa-a640-1b217715e905 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR </code></pre> <p>Does anyone know what part of this file outlook is having the problem with? Or, perhaps more importantly, does anyone know what I can do in dday.iCal in order to make outlook happy?</p> <p>Thanks!</p>
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