Daylight savings time and gam calendar create event

[John Utsey]

Hi,

When I insert events on other calendars, I use a csv file, and format the time as YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS-HH:MM as per the documentation, and everything looks good, until I get into November after Daylight Savings ends, then all my events are an hour early.

I tried it with the start time set as 

• 2022-11-07T08:45:00-06:00 timezone "America/Denver"
• 2022-11-07T08:45:00-06:00 
• 2022-11-07T08:45:00Z timezone "America/Denver"
• 2022-11-07T08:45:00Z

The timezone doesn't seem to affect the time of the event.

The Zulu time events both appeared at 1:45 AM

The -06:00 off set times both appear at 7:45 AM not 08:45 AM

Is there a way to tell the event to be at 08:45 no matter if it is before or after Daylight Savings time? I guess, I don't want the event anchored to Zulu time. I'd like it anchored to 08:45

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

 John

[Ben Owen]

Hi John,

I ran into this a few years ago, and my solution was to have a different offset depending on when the events occur. I use your second format above, so for me in the Central time zone I would do:

• 2022-08-10T 08:45:00-05:00 - For events between now - Nov 5 
• 2022-11-07T08:45:00-06:00 -  For events between Nov 6 - March 11, 2023

Hope this helps - Ben

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