you could try creating your events in UTC  and then apply the time zone
manipulation logic on your side when you retrieve the data from google.

If you create events in UTC, Google does not make any conversions to
timezones.

Cheers.

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:19 AM, Narasimham <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I created a web application using calendar data API to create events
> in google calendar.  The application is behaving weird depending on
> where it is hosted.
>
> Our development servers are in EST time zone.
>
> Our production servers are in PST time zone.
>
> Our calendars are in EST time zone.
>
> In the development environment if I set an event to start at 9AM and
> end by 10 AM, it is creating events fine.
>
> But in the production environment, the same event is getting created
> to start at 12 PM and end by 1 PM.
>
> I am using EventEntry class to create the events in google calendar.
>
> After noticing this behaviour, I modified the code to add the
> following lines:
>
>                'Set timezone
>                Dim lobjTimeZone As New TimeZone
>                lobjTimeZone.Value = "US/Eastern"
>                objEventEntry.ExtensionElements.Add(lobjTimeZone)
>
>               'Setting when to event.
>               dtEventStartDt = "3/24/2009 9:00 am"
>               dtEventEndDt= "3/24/2009 10:00 am"
>               objEventEntry.ExtensionElements.Add(New [When]
> (dtEventStartDt , dtEventEndDt, false))
>
> I am not sure if this is a right notation but even then I see the same
> behaviour.
>
> Is it somehow taking the time zone the server is in and converting the
> time to the equivalent time zone?
>
> Is there anyway to stop that behavour of converting the time and
> create the events to the times I pass to the event?
>
> -N
>
> >
>

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