Comments on: How to import Facebook events without timezone issues

By: Dae

Dae — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:51:27 +0000

Hi Dan, I just stumbled across this fix for my Pre — awesome! I too was about to give up.

If you’re still checking this thread, I’ve got a glitch I’m wondering if you know anything about.

The first time I tried adding the corrected calendar url as an “Other Calendar” in google cal, a recent past event came up with the correct event title and time, but all future events come up at the right times but with just “busy” instead titles or details.

Not sure whether it just takes a day or so to appear correctly, but wondering if you know what’s going on and how to fix it!

Thank you!

Dae

By: Elle

Elle — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:34:07 +0000

This works perfect. I had to do some extra searching on what to do with the file afterwards (for the import and such), but this is going to make my life a lot less confusing. THANK you for taking the time to make this and share it with us! I’ll think of you fondly every time I show up to a meeting at the right time.

By: dancrumb

dancrumb — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:15:35 +0000

Sorry kelly,

When I navigate to that URL, I see:

Sorry, this URL is invalid or has expired.

Must be a problem at the Facebook end of things

By: kelly

kelly — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:11:25 +0000

http://www.facebook.com/ical/u.php?uid=510411186&key=d02894f095

By: dancrumb

dancrumb — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:32:13 +0000

Hi Kelly,

Can you tell me exactly what URL you’re putting in?

Dan

By: kelly

kelly — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:41:44 +0000

this is not working, it won’t generate the code for me. What am I doing wrong? I am using the new explorer, tried it in aol too. thoughts?

By: AnthonyK

AnthonyK — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:16:32 +0000

Thanks Dan, works great for m

By: max

max — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:33:23 +0000

Great idea!

Was working wonderful, but now i start to miss some Events, any idea why? fbcal.com has problems with some of the characters, maybe a encoding problem? Or is facebook changing something and it is simply only showing “old” events?

Would love to have this working again!
Thanks again!

By: frederic sidler

frederic sidler — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 06:48:44 +0000

Hello Dan,
A simple word to tell you that we fixed this problem to in fbcal. In your http://www.fbcal.com page, just select the timezone you are in and subscribe to your calendar. For all the users, this option is for Google Calendar users only

By: Richard Kolkovich

Richard Kolkovich — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:22:48 +0000

Thanks – I’m glad I didn’t have to dig too much to figure this bug out.

The larger problem, though, is that the automatic synchronization with the Facebook calendar can’t be fixed this way. Anyone figured that one out? I guess the Q&D way would be to patch the Calendar app to apply the difference between PST/PDT and your current timezone to these events (since you can’t edit them via the Calendar app). I’ll post back if I end up doing that (if it’s even possible…).

Thanks again!