Hi,

Thanks for your the input DPM and you are correct in your assessment.
But if you really want to get the UTC offset, there is a roundable way
to do that.  Since all events and its start/end time description is
normalized to the calendar timezone UTC offset, therefore if you take
an event within a calendar and parse out the trailing part of the iCal
string of its start time you will get something like -07:00 (pacific
daylight saving offset).

Hope it helps,
Austin

On Oct 23, 8:37 am, DPM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Being technical for a moment, "America/Chicago" IS the timezone.
>
> TIMEZONE =
> 1) UTC offset
> 2) rules to determine daylight savings offset
>
> #2 is the kicker. It also happens to change. [ie - in the US, up to
> the 2nd sunday of march, but last year it was 1st sunday of april. #1
> is -7 for california during half the year, but -8 during the other.]
>
> As such, if you try to summarize it down to 1 number, you will get it
> wrong half the time.
>
> On Oct 23, 5:41 am, jobless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello All,
>
> > I am using JavaScript and trying to extract the time zone value from
> > the feed returned by Google calendar when a query is performed. The
> > problem is I am getting a value like America/Chicago and not the UTC
> > offset! Is it possible to get the time zone offset for a calendar?
>
> > Thank you for any suggestions.
>
> > Regards,
> > Jobless- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -


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