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Reputation: 91

Basecamp API Calendar Event Dates

I am trying to create a calendar event for a project but the dates for the calendar event are not being properly set.

Here is the JSON data I am passing to the service

{
 "summary":"New Calendar Item #2",
 "description":"Details to follow",
 "all_day":"false",
 "starts_at":"2015-05-07T00:00:00.0000000",
 "ends_at":"2015-05-12T00:00:00.0000000",
 "remind_at":"2015-05-06T00:00:00.0000000",
 "subscribers":"all",
 "private":"false"
}

After I POST that information to the "new" Basecamp API the dates are not correct. Here are the dates that I receive back for the newly created Calendar Event:

 "starts_at":"2015-05-06T20:00:00.000-04:00",
 "ends_at":"2015-05-06T20:00:00.000-04:00",
 "remind_at":"2015-05-05T20:00:00.000-04:00"

Not sure why the date values are off. I am assuming the dates are in proper format since I am not getting a 400 status code back.

Any help would be appreciated.

Here is a link to their documentation: https://github.com/basecamp/bcx-api/blob/master/sections/calendar_events.md

Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 204

Answers (1)

Jim Mackenzie
Jim Mackenzie

Reputation: 241

If you change the format of the starts_at, ends_at and reminds_at to the following, you should get the times you expect:

 "starts_at":"2015-05-07T00:00:00-00:00",
 "ends_at":"2015-05-12T00:00:00-00:00",
 "remind_at":"2015-05-06T00:00:00-00:00",

You could pass the timezone of the user instead if the event is to start at midnight local time:

 "starts_at":"2015-05-07T00:00:00-04:00",
 "ends_at":"2015-05-12T00:00:00-04:00",
 "remind_at":"2015-05-06T00:00:00-04:00",

Upvotes: 0

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