GDC Calendar Timezone Fix
Mar 9th, 2009The GDC Schedule Builder (link will only be accessible to attendees of GDC that have a MyGDC account is a really neat tool that lets you browse the full list of what’s on at the conference, build a short list of things you want to attend, and then throw them all into a final list. This final list can then be exported in several different formats, one of which is iCal (.ics).
The iCal format, however, seems to export all items as (incorrectly) being in the UTC/GMT timezone. So, for example, a lecture you want to attend at 9am will be in the generated .ics file as 9am GMT – meaning when you import it into (say) Outlook, it’ll go in at the wrong time (unless, of course, you just happen to be in the GMT+0 timezone).
I wrote a very quick hacky tool that will take the contents of a generated .ics file, parse it, apply an offset to the times in it, and spit it back out – so you can easily import everything at the correct times for your local timezone. You’ll have to figure out the time difference between your timezone and GDC’s timezone (which is US Pacific Daylight Time, or PDT, or UTC-7, or GMT-7).
It’s a quick hack and worked for me and saved me manually editing all my items, but YMMV.
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