Talk:CSSS 2008 Beijing-Schedule
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- Will there be calendars in ical so we can import it into our calendar softwares?
- I will if I can. The challenge is that I made the calendar at home in the U.S., so everything is in Eastern Standard Time, and not Beijing time. So if you imported my ical for the CSSS it would show up as a half-day early, because Beijing is 12 hours ahead of me. This is why I printed it out as a pdf rather than just made my google calendar public. If anyone knows how to shift time zones, please let me know. --Dpf 13:09, 16 June 2008 (MDT)
- You mean you met the same problem as in http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070916164715AAJY0jj ? I do not know any software can do this. But if you can export it to a .ics file, the following steps might be a solution.
- I will if I can. The challenge is that I made the calendar at home in the U.S., so everything is in Eastern Standard Time, and not Beijing time. So if you imported my ical for the CSSS it would show up as a half-day early, because Beijing is 12 hours ahead of me. This is why I printed it out as a pdf rather than just made my google calendar public. If anyone knows how to shift time zones, please let me know. --Dpf 13:09, 16 June 2008 (MDT)
1. Open the .ics file with your favourite text editor.
2. Add the following text in the VTIMEZONE area of the .ics, just after the ics head
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Chongqing X-LIC-LOCATION:Asia/Chongqing BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:19700101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE
3. Read your events, such like
BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20080612T142000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20080612T152000 DTSTAMP:20080617T161545Z ... END:VEVENT
On your computer, it should be TZID=EST:... or something like that. You can do a full document replace, from EST to Asia/Chongqing. It should work.