iCal appointments showing wrong time

ok..I am sending Engineering my iCal appointments as well as screen shots from my calendar. if you have the same and post...please do so. I am seeing this from Webex, appointments from MS Outlook Users, and appointments from Lotus Notes users.

I even did a screen share with them to show the webex invite (invited the support engineer to the meeting) and showed how it is wrong on my calendar.

Interesting quote was..."hmmmm...."

They asked for more examples and said there were going to check the server components that my account touches

I believe it only shows wrong in the calendar of the webex meeting organiser, so I think it is a webex issue not an Apple issue.

It happens almost ALL the time...regardless of the sender. Webex is consistently wrong. Notes, Outlook....all wrong....Attached is a meeting that was SUPPOSED to be on my calendar at 7AM central...showed up at 8AM. It's from a Lotus Notes sender

It has been converted to TXT file and partially "redacted"

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Hi, I have the same issue with WebEx and iCal.

Invitations are shown one hour later in iCal than they were planned in WebEx.

And it seems that this happens with my businespartners too, when they invite me from Lotus Notes.

will be watching forum for a solution. my wife is using lotus at work and have same problem--missed two appointments because of this bug before we figured out calendar was at fault...if Engineering needs any other screen shots, just let me know.

I have the same issue. Lotus Notes calendar invites show up in my iCalendar one hour late. In the time section it shows: 2 PM (1 PM EST) as if the invite was sent for EsT instead of EdT. Now it gets crazy: if I accept the invite on my iPHONE, the invite shows the correct time. No error. I believe this started when we switched to DST.

BEGIN:VCALENDAR

X-LOTUS-CHARSET:UTF-8

VERSION:2.0

PRODID:-//Lotus Development Corporation//NONSGML Notes 9.0.1//EN_S

METHOD:REQUEST

BEGIN:VTIMEZONE

TZID:Eastern

BEGIN:STANDARD

DTSTART:19501105T020000

TZOFFSETFROM:-0400

TZOFFSETTO:-0500

RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMINUTE=0;BYHOUR=2;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11

END:STANDARD

BEGIN:DAYLIGHT

DTSTART:19500312T020000

TZOFFSETFROM:-0500

TZOFFSETTO:-0400

RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMINUTE=0;BYHOUR=2;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3

END:DAYLIGHT

END:VTIMEZONE

BEGIN:VEVENT

DTSTART;TZID="Eastern":20140505T130000

DTEND;TZID="Eastern":20140505T140000

TRANSP:OPAQUE

DTSTAMP:20140505T141142Z

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X-LOTUS-BROADCAST:FALSE

X-LOTUS-UPDATE-SEQ:1

X-LOTUS-UPDATE-WISL:$S:1;$L:1;$B:1;$R:1;$E:1;$W:1;$O:1;$M:1;RequiredAttendees:1; INetRequiredNames:1;AltRequiredNames:1;StorageRequiredNames:1;OptionalAttendees: 1;INetOptionalNames:1;AltOptionalNames:1;StorageOptionalNames:1

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Any ideas, thoughts, input! Any help greatly appreciated!

After a lot of test - pure trial and error and comparison to a working Apple Calendar invite, I found out that the culprit seems to be the RRULE in the Lotus Notes invite. It specifies BYMINUTE=0;BYHOUR=2;

If you copy the invite, change the UID (to make iCalendar believe it is a new invite) and delete (BYMINUTE=0;BYHOUR=2;) in both RRULEs, the invite works.

Now that I know what is wrong, how do we get Lotus Notes or Apple to agree on something that works?

We have the same problem with lotus notes invites, we had IBM open a case with Apple.

Been on the phone w/ Apple Engineering and Support. Walked though a bunch of settings...nothing.

Narrowed the problem down to Lotus Notes and WebEx (unless anybody out there has an issue I don't know about).

WebEx has this posting

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anybody tried MyTrueCloud?

The solution by jchwcpa worked for me (editing RRULE). To tell the truth, I had not noticed this issue before, and I frequently get Lotus Notes calendar invitations from within our company. I live in New Zealand, and the time zone was incorrectly showing up as GMT +13 rather than GMT + 12. I'm running OS X 10.9.2.

Thanks

@ JMC-88

This are good news. So we know they are workin on this issue.

@ all

Any news about Lotus Notes?

Has anything further happened related to this? Having to edit invitations by hand is a pain -- I guess I could write a script to do it, but a real solution would be preferable.