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iCal - Google (CalDav) sync for Floating events broken after 10.5.5 upgrade

I just upgraded to 10.5.5. For several weeks I have been syncing my calendar with a Google Calendar using their (new) CalDAV support. This has been working very very well.

After I upgraded some of my calendar events shifted 4 hours in iCal. On examination it was all of the events that show as "Floating" time zone and the ones that are "US/Eastern" are still at their right times. Looking at the Google version of the calendar everything is fine.

Further the answer "give everything a TZ" will not work for me as lots of people put entries on my Google calendar and I can't force them all to assign a time zone. And it will be a big pain (after it has been working) to go back to doing all the double checking by hand.

Again, this is new behavior since the upgrade to 10.5.5

Anyone else seeing this or know how to address it?

-- Steven

Macbook, Mac OS X (10.5.4), really 10.5.5, but that is not an option yet.

Posted on Sep 15, 2008 5:34 PM

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Sep 16, 2008 4:22 AM in response to smsather

Randy -- very interesting. is it easy to check and see if there is a time zone associated with the Zimbra calendar entries? On mu screwed up calendar it is the ones in the "floating" zone that are screwed up and the ones in EDT that are still fine.

It could easily be a Google problem, but it was working right yesterday before the upgrade. So it was what Apple did that caused the issue. Last night I did not see anything posted on Googles forums but will monitor that too.

-- Steven

Sep 16, 2008 7:35 PM in response to smsather

Yes, all this started with the 10.5.5 update. Our Zimbra server is EST (GMT-05:00). I'm not sure how to tell what zone a calendar entry "is in". All of my shifted Google CALDAV entries seem to say EST in the "note" section.

Here's another data point...on our Zimbra server, through the webmail interface, I "subscribed" (long ago) to my Google calendar...a read-only, one way sync (not CALDAV, I think it's WEBDAV) from Google to my Zimbra. Now, on the Zimbra webmail interface, the calendar entries are not shifted. On my 10.5.5 iCal Zimbra CALDAV view, the same entries are shifted 4 hours. So, there definitely seems to be something fishy with 10.5.5 iCal and the Google CALDAV.

Sep 16, 2008 9:56 PM in response to smsather

I think I'm having a related problem. I upgraded to OS 10.5.5 yesterday and ever since, I'm having trouble with MobileMe syn. It hangs up forever and prevents other processes.

I use Zimbra calendar at work and sync to iCal using Zimbra iSync Connector version 5.0.2201.

Activity monitor revealed that the zimbrahelper was consuming 90% of my memory and CPU. I have to quit it to resolve the problem. The temporary solution is to disable Zimbra iSync Connector.

However, if anyone knows of another fix, please let me know.

Sep 17, 2008 5:53 AM in response to smsather

Same problem here. All my ical events for the calendar that sync to googles calendar are off by 5 or 6 hours - the change to DST seems to be affecting the amount. After a bunch of experimenting, I think I've found a workaround. It's just a matter of sliding the wrong times back into the right place in ical - and you can use google calendars as a guideline (it didn't get changed). When you move the events in ical, they don't move correspondingly in goocal unless you put them back in the wrong place, so if you move them to the right place everything is hunky dory. It's a bunch of work depending on how much stuff you have - I spent an hour doing this last night, got half way done, will finish it up this morning.

My guess is that it's a problem with isync - I had it pop up with an error message soon after updating to 10.5.5 - but I'm no expert. I do like how goocal seems to be cool with the wrong entries until you change them - it seems to know who's having the problem.

iCal - Google (CalDav) sync for Floating events broken after 10.5.5 upgrade

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