Outlook supports floating time for all-season events that only extend over a few days
I am trying to create an .ics file for an event that is propagating over 5 days. Below is an example of .ics content:
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:BestMedTourDeBoland
DTSTART:20150302T000000
DTEND:20150306T230000
SUMMARY:Bestmed Tour De Boland
PRIORITY:3
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
As you can see, the start date is set for March 02 and covers until the end of March 06. When I import the .ics file, I get the message "outlook only supports floating time for all day messages only". Any help to fix this issue?
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This tells you a problem: don't use floating time format for multi-day events. Insert Z after DTSTART for UTC or add timezone id.
RFC 5545 explains the date format options: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545#page-33 or more specifically when floating: http://icalevents.com/2064-ical-local-or-floating- date-times /
Example:
`DTSTART:20100202T151500Z`
or with the timezone id:
DTSTART;TZID="America/New_York":20080807T090000
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