Problematic iCal in faraway places

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Bryan C
yesterday
Member for 1 month 5 posts

I'm having a few integration issues with OR, being in Australia. I know you're US-focussed, but the same things should work for all (we pay the same). As an aside it would also be great if you looked at other integrations outside of the US. There are quite a few platforms I can't use as the integrations are only with the major ones. I know we're small fry, but. Anyway, this issue:

This one is regarding ical. I feel it must be a solvable problem given the ical from Air BNB manages to show the dates correctly. I presume whether you are in the US, Australia, or Timbuktu, the Air BNB ical works accurately.

I've been advised the following:

Why This Happens

This is a known issue with Google Calendar's handling of iCal timezone conversions, particularly for users in timezones significantly ahead of UTC (like Australia). The iCal standard represents bookings correctly, but Google Calendar's interpretation can cause display issues.

Google Calendar > It seemed like it was working, but it's no longer updating!

Here is the example of what I see: In blue is the ical from Air BNB showing the booked nights, i.e. checking out on 5th May. OR shows as checking out on 6th. As I use this calendar for cleaners and more, and hope to exclusively use OR (because not everything comes from ABB), it is very confusing and basically unusable. Suggestions of using alternate calendars are not useful - everyone uses Google.

It would seem that if ABB has solutioned this, then it is clearly possible. Hoping you can look into this. Thank you.