Hello,

That's not a standard timezone format so you will need to add it in to JEvents file:

components/com_jevents/libraries/iCalImport.php

See for example:

You would add for example:

$wtzdata["(UTC+01"] = "Europe/Amsterdam";
$wtzdata["(UTC+01:00) Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Bern\, Rom\, Stockholm\, Wien"] = "Europe/Amsterdam";

Hi, thanks for the fast respond!

I tried the following in this file which didn't work:

          /////////////////// SELF ADDED BEGIN ///////////////////

		$wtzdata["(UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rom, Stockholm, Wien"] = "Europe/Amsterdam";

		$wtzdata["Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Bern\, Rom\, Stockholm\, Wien"] = "Europe/Amsterdam";

		$wtzdata["Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rom, Stockholm, Wien"] = "Europe/Amsterdam";

		$wtzdata["UTC+01:00 Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Bern\, Rom\, Stockholm\, Wien"] = "Europe/Amsterdam";

		$wtzdata["UTC+01:00 Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rom, Stockholm, Wien"] = "Europe/Amsterdam";

		$wtzdata["(UTC+01:00)"] = "Europe/Amsterdam";

		$wtzdata["UTC+01:00"] = "Europe/Amsterdam";

		/////////////////// SELF ADDED END ///////////////////

Your solution with the

$wtzdata["(UTC+01"] = "Europe/Amsterdam";

works now. Thanks...

but.... now i get new error...:

DateTime::__construct(): Failed to parse time string (00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rom, Stockholm, Wien"20161014T190000) at position 0 (0): Unexpected character

that's how the ics looks like (part from it):

BEGIN:VEVENT
DESCRIPTION:some description
UID:some UID
SUMMARY:some summary
DTSTART;TZID="(UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rom, Stockholm, Wien":2016
1014T190000
DTEND;TZID="(UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rom, Stockholm, Wien":201610
14T210000
CLASS:PUBLIC
PRIORITY:5
DTSTAMP:20161115T104921Z
TRANSP:OPAQUE
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
LOCATION:some location
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-APPT-SEQUENCE:0
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INTENDEDSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-INSTTYPE:0
X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE
END:VEVENT

any ideas?

the : is a special character in the iCal format so I'm VERY surprised at Microsoft allowing it in a timezone id.

change line 2234 of components/com_jevents/libraries/iCalImport.php from

$matches = explode(":",$vcLine,2);

to

				$matches = explode(":",$vcLine,3);                                

                                // Catch some bad Microsoft timezones e.g. "(UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rom, Stockholm, Wien"

                                if (count($matches) == 3) {

                                    $matches[0] = $matches[0].":".$matches[1];

                                    $matches[1] = $matches[2];

                                    unset($matches[2]);

                                }

and it should resolve the issue

Well, thank you really for your help!!

Now I get no error in the backed.
Sadly Every appointment gets imported on every single day, see attachment....

Before I posted my question into this forum, I tried with the search & replace funktion to replace all this UTC crap with 'GMT Standard Time' and created a calendar with uploading the ics file from my computer. This solution worked fine. Every appointment was on its day - obviously with the wrong time....

I hope I don't waste your time helping me....

Can you provide a full copy of your iCal file?

I'll send you a priv. message :-)

Please adjust Geraints replacement code to:

				$matches = explode(":",$vcLine,3);                                

                                // Catch some bad Microsoft timezones e.g. "(UTC+01:00) Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rom, Stockholm, Wien"

                                if (count($matches) == 3) {

                                    $matches[0] = $matches[0];

                                    $matches[1] = $matches[2];

                                    unset($matches[2]);

                                }

And run again.

Now it works like it should!

Thank you very much!! :-)

So for the next update I'll have to add/replace the code again, right?

Yep I'm afraid so!

Many thanks
Tony

No - I'll actually include it in the next release since it won't harm anyone else.

Okay, thank you very much! :-)

p.s. Remember to add your custom timezone in the file components/com_jevents/libraries/ical_custom_timezones.php as

<?php 

$wtzdata["UTC+01:00 Amsterdam, Berlin, Bern, Rom, Stockholm, Wien"] = "Europe/Amsterdam";