Comments on: Apple iCal / Microsoft Exchange fix for Leopard

By: Melanie Wert

Melanie Wert — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:57:53 +0000

Is there anything I can do for Snow Leopard?? I am having the same issues with the invitations in iCal coming from our Exchange Server. HHHEEEELLLLPPPP!!

By: Surgical Diversions » iCal – Exchange Time Zone Fix

Surgical Diversions » iCal – Exchange Time Zone Fix — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:34:31 +0000

[...] Justin Hartman has recently given you his solution to this problem. I haven’t tested it but in looking at it I’m certain it works just fine. I say this because he’s fixing the problem is a similar manner. It’s just that he’s using a combination of shell scripts and AppleScripts. I’ve got it down to a single AppleScript. [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:22:39 +0000

Hi Justin,

Not sure if you have a sec to help, but I have a similar issue with invites from Lotus Notes where they appear an hour later in iCal.

Looking at the invites from Notes, I see the following:

DTSTART;TZID=”GMT”:20090622T130000

And in an invite sent to myself from iCal the following:

DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20090622T160000

(note these meetings are at 2 different times)

So it looks like I need to translate “GMT” to “Europe/London”. If I’ve assumed correctly, any chance you could help with the regex?

Thanks,

Tom

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:50:33 +0000

Have you look at using SyncEm to do Exchange to iCal syncing?

By: Zoltan

Zoltan — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:48:38 +0000

After installing your script as you described, I
noticed that all the files, including the script itself
has a read and write permission for everyone in
my Applications folder.

Isn’t it dangerous to have a chmod -R 0777 ?

By: Simon

Simon — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:41:25 +0000

You’re a legend!

I’ve also been looking for a solution to this problem for some time and then came across a link to this post from the Apple support forums.

Finally, I can kick Entourage and get back to iCal. Thanks dude =)

By: Peter O'Hanlon

Peter O'Hanlon — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:14:25 +0000

This script is great! Solved the problem for me, after hours of trying to get through to Apple support with nobody answering and the iStore with the answer that “The Mac can’t talk to Microsoft Outlook”.

Thanks again.

By: David

David — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:34:43 +0000

Justin – you are DA MAN!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:37:05 +0000

Hi there,
I’ve tried my best to sort this out by I’m afraid I’ll be needing a little help.
Here’s the info as it appears in the invites :
DTSTART;TZID=Korea Standard Time:20081003T113000

I sent myself an invite from iCal but the format isn’t as would be expected. I get :
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081003

I believe it should be something like :
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:XXXXXXXXXXX

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again !

By: Andy_Fragen

Andy_Fragen — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:43:11 +0000

Annette, see comment #54.

By: Annette

Annette — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:55:06 +0000

Hi there,
I really tried to work out what I was supposed to do here but three hours later I have given up!
Please help!!

Incorrect time on incoming calendar
DTSTART;TZID=E. Australia Standard Time:20080922T110000
DTEND;TZID=E. Australia Standard Time:20080922T120000

Time displayed in my calendar
DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Brisbane:20080929T150000

By: Atul

Atul — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 15:04:30 +0000

Thanks it works for me.

By: Andy_Fragen

Andy_Fragen — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:15:15 +0000

Atul, you may also want to see if my script will work for you. Can't make any promises.

By: Andy_Fragen

Andy_Fragen — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:59:00 +0000

Atul, that is the most seriously screwed up TZID I’ve ever seen. You should complain to whomever runs the Exchange server to shorten it/fix it.

By: Atul

Atul — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 12:52:21 +0000

hey Justin, thanks for the script. I was able to replace only first instance but not the other two due to line breaks can you please help.

(GMT+05.30) Calcutta/Chennai/Mumbai/New Delhi/India Standard Time
“(GMT+05.30) Calcutta/Chennai/Mumbai/New Delhi/India Standard
Time”
(GMT+05.30) Calcutta/Chennai/Mumbai/New Delhi/India Standard Ti
me”
perl -pi -e ’s/$GMT\+05\.30$\ Calcutta\/Chennai\/Mumbai\/New Delhi\/India Standard Time/Asia\/Calcutta/g’ $ICSFILE

By: iCal to Exchange before Snow Leopard | Tongfamily.com

iCal to Exchange before Snow Leopard | Tongfamily.com — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:36:08 +0000

[...] are real issues like Justin point out. Exchange uses non-standard time formats like (GMT+02.00) Harare/Pretoria whereas Apple [...]

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:59:26 +0000

I just bot a new Mac. I just registered but when logging in the mac address does not recognize me. I have been working with best buy and apple store. I still have not resolved the problem. I may have to return the machine since I cannot get an email address. I really want the mac but seems no one can help me. What can I do?

By: Justin Hartman

Justin Hartman — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:46:18 +0000

Hi Guys. I've just released version 1.2 of this script. More details can be found over here:
http://justinhartman.com/2008/08/28/apple-ical-...

By: Apple iCal / Microsoft Exchange fix version 1.2 released by Justin Hartman

Apple iCal / Microsoft Exchange fix version 1.2 released by Justin Hartman — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:48:26 +0000

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By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:24:05 +0000

The iCal error reported is caused by a missing “exit 0″ line at the end of the fix_timezone.sh script.