Discrepancy in Time Displays

LiveWhale
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Hello,

We have some events, coming in from an ICAL feed, display correct timezone. For example, the Chicago event shows as EDT but the Mountain Time Event shows correctly.

School of Public Health-Bloomington: Meet the Dean - Chicago / IU Alumni Association Calendar - Displays in EDT while the time in Feed is CDT.
Mountain time event that displays the timezone correctly:
IUAA Colorado: Rockies Volunteer Event / IU Alumni Association Calendar.
Here is what we see in the feed for the Chicago event:

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Here is what we see in the feed for the Colorado event event:

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Let us know why there is this discrepancy.

Thanks,

Akbar

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Hi Akbar,

Sorry to hear this is giving you trouble. Would you share some ICAL examples beyond the screenshots (either pasted in as text/code, or a full ICAL file url) so that we can try to reproduce this on one of our servers? Thank you!

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Here is the iCal Feed URL:

https://api.iuf.iu.edu/api/bbis/events-tz.ics#calendar_subscription

It is here:
https://events.iu.edu/livewhale/?events_subscriptions_edit&id=270

Thanks.

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Hi Akbar,

Thanks for your patience on this one. We’ve narrowed this down to a way that our sync process was caching timezones by offset, but then in certain cases that cache could get “polluted” by daylight savings differences, i.e. the same TZ abbreviation might be -4 some parts of the year and -5 others. We’ve worked up a fix for this and it’s going into our next patch release. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Karl