Neil Jerram <neiljer...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
By default, ox-icalendar takes the value of your TZ environment variable. > 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. You can set TIMEZONE heading property to provide a separate time zone per entry. See 13.15 iCalendar Export section of the manual. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
