This feature does not work as advertised. Total crap. Resets times and then impossible to move back. Dangerous to health.

So what's your problem? Give details, and it's possible somebody can suggest something to help you. Personally, I haven't had any problems.

When opening .ics meetings in iCal, iCal doesn't translate the meeting to my local time zone. It also doesn't let you change the time since you didn't create the invite.

These two quotes are from the Apple Forums - my problem is IDENTICAL to these gentlemen:

"Hi all,
I'm just a guy who recently migrated from Palm Desktop and who doesn't like to be in Madrid, for example, only to see his Chicago appointments listed seven hours ahead. I've been managing time zones in my head my whole life and don't really need or want iCal to "help" me out with it.
That said, does anyone know of a script available or other method that will allow one to change all events in iCal to "floating"? I would prefer to not have to do this one event at a time.
Thanks much for your thoughts and insight.
MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.7)
tonyhj

Posts: 4
Registered: Sep 9, 2006
Re: Question re. converting multiple events to floating time zone
Posted: Sep 9, 2006 4:25 PM in response to: Ryan Grub

I'm glad this topic is here, and sad that it hasn't generated any useful replies in almost 20 days! I really had to dig before I found this unanswered question!

I've posted my own - somewhat comparable - problem and possibly someone will notice and answer. My question, posted Sept 9, is entitled "Can I disable 'time zone' actions done by iCal?"
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Does ANYONE have a solution for this? How to GLOABLLY set ALL EVENTS (or at least all events in a given Calendar) to FLOATING, including RETROACTIVELY???

iCal 2.0.5, Powerbook G4, OS X 10.4.9

Thanks!

this is driving me INSANE.
Back in Central time, with the Time Zone Assist turned on, I could synch iCal to my iPod and things would be correct.
Then I moved east.
I reset the time zone (and correct time) on the iPod, and did the same for my computer. Now, on iCal, my appointments do show up at the correct times, and in the correct time zone.
HOWEVER, when I synch my iPod, it moves every single appointment to one hour later. Everything. A 3-5 pm meeting now says it's 4-6 pm.... but ONLY on the iPod.
I'll re-set the time zone to Eastern on the iPod, appointments will slide back into their correct time slots, and then, once I synch the iPod with new songs/appointments, it does the same thing again.
Tried turning OFF the time zone helper on iCal, to no avail.
HELP, HELP, HELP- I cannot find any info about this and am pulling my hair out in frustration.

Time zones in general in mac seem to throw everything out of wack. I worked in Australia so I thought it was a good idea to change time zones. I added iCal appointments, I imported photos, I added contacts including their birthdays. When I got back to Canada and reverted timezones everything was messed up. Birthdays that I added were moved a day back! What the heck is that all about? If someones birthday is Apr 4, it is nice to know that it is on Apr 4 no matter what timezone I am in. I have learned to never change time zones now.

One issue i have had with iCal is entering my flight times. Normally the arrival and departure are in different time zones. There is not option for entering a start time in one time zone and end time in an other.

To work around I have to convert all my flights into UTC so they will show up with the proper duration and will appear at the right times when i change my calandar time zone.

Pain in the *ss but apple seems not to care about this issue.

A birthday is associated with a timezone just like anything else with a date --
presumably your friends in Australian celebrate their birthdays in their local timezone? If you want to call and wish one of them a happy birthday, you'd better call between 0000-2400h 4/4 AEDT (or whatever their TZ is) and not your local Canadian time which could be 15-20 hours later.

I just tried this and it seems to work. I wanted to make all of my floating events be in the America/Denver time zone. To do the opposite, simply reverse the FIND and REPLACE pairs.

Export your calendar from the File menu as an ICS file (the default).

Open the ICS file in TextEdit.

First, find the following:
DTSTART:

Replace with:
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:

Choose "Replace All"

Then find:
DTEND:

Replace with:
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:

Choose "Replace All"

Save the ICS file.

Finally, open the ICS into iCal again, and it should work.