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iCalendar outputs do not handle UTC times properly

Open jennifer-richards opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

Describe the issue

Per RFC 5545, a DATE-TIME in an iCalendar file must represent UTC times using a Z suffix (e.g., 2022-08-08T23:01:00Z). For local times with a time zone reference, the TZID attribute is to be used (e.g., TZID=America/Los_Angeles:2022-08-08T16:01:00).

In at least agenda.ics, meeting time zones are specified using the TZID attribute regardless of its value. This should instead use the -Z suffix when the meeting times are in UTC.

Code of Conduct

jennifer-richards avatar Aug 08 '22 23:08 jennifer-richards