On Wed, 7 Dec 2022 at 11:30, Neil Jerram <neiljer...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Firstly, when I last exported during late summer, org generated an
> .ics file with
>
> X-WR-TIMEZONE:BST
>
> which I think was intended to mean British Summer Time; but Google
> interpreted it as Bangladesh Standard Time. As a result, my events
> from Org are shown at the wrong time in Google calendar.
>
> Secondly, it seems to me that the concept of having a timezone for the
> whole .ics file might be wrong. My Org files have dated events in
> both the summer and the winter, and it is obvious to me that the times
> for the summer events should be understood as British Summer time
> (UTC+1), and that the times for the winter events should be understood
> as GMT (UTC).
>
> Do others agree with that? If so, it would need to be reflected on
> export by each event having its own timezone, instead of a global
> timezone for the whole file.
>
> Best wishes,
> Neil
Ah, it looks like the solution for both points might be customizing
org-icalendar-timezone as "Europe/London". I will try that...
Neil
