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Louis W
Louis W

Reputation: 3272

Mulit-Day All-Day Event

I am having issues getting the right syntax for an all day event which spans multiple days. Here is my ICAL event:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//http://XXX//Event
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID="America/Chicago";VALUE=DATE:20150809
DTEND;TZID="America/Chicago";VALUE=DATE:20150812
SUMMARY:Event Name
DESCRIPTION:Event Description
LOCATION:Event Location
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Shows up great in Mac Calendar: enter image description here

But in Outlook, it starts at 1AM and isn't marked as all day: enter image description here

Upvotes: 5

Views: 6350

Answers (2)

Craig.C
Craig.C

Reputation: 599

For context, not another answer: As @Evert said there is no place for a TimeZone in an iCAL date value, just a year, month and day:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2445#section-4.3.4

Formal Definition: The value type is defined by the following
notation:

 date               = date-value

 date-value         = date-fullyear date-month date-mday
 date-fullyear      = 4DIGIT
 date-month         = 2DIGIT        ;01-12
 date-mday          = 2DIGIT        ;01-28, 01-29, 01-30, 01-31
                                    ;based on month/year

...

 Example: The following represents July 14, 1997:

 19970714

Upvotes: 0

Alyssa Haroldsen
Alyssa Haroldsen

Reputation: 3731

From what I just tested, it seems that Outlook does not allow all-day ICAL events to have a timezone specified. Seems stupid, but changing the file to this made it work:

BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//http://XXX//Event
METHOD:PUBLISH
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150809
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150812
SUMMARY:Event Name
DESCRIPTION:Event Description
LOCATION:Event Location
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR

Upvotes: 4

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