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Print at Nov 12, 2025, 12:40:59 AM

Posted by echogcal at Feb 13, 2010, 12:50:20 PM

Export Of All Day Events Doesn't Work - Generates Bad event.ics File
We've found that the export feature doesn't work properly when an event has been designated as an All Day event.

Whenever the event is set to All Day and exported (for Outlook), the resultant event.ics file includes a seemingly arbitrary date "range" rather than just the date of the event. Here's an example of a non-repeating, All Day event on July 11, 2010. Note that the start date is correct, but it shows an END DATE of January 11, 2009...exactly 18 months prior to the actual date of the Localendar event.

BEGIN:VCALENDARCALSCALE:GREGORIANPRODID:localendar.icalendarBEGIN:VEVENTTITLE:Beat The Heat Mountain OvernighterDTSTART:20100711 DTEND:20090111 SUMMARY:Beat The Heat Mountain OvernighterDESCRIPTION:Beat The Heat Mountain OvernighterX-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:END:VEVENTEND:VCALENDAR

The export feature works fine when the event includes a Start Time, but generates an erroneous date range in the export file whenever the event is designated as All Day.

This is causing our Outlook users some issues. Is there a way to correct this?

Thanks,
Electric City H.O.G.