Fixing a calendar invite

[W.J.]

Hello,

During the British Summer time (March to October), I receive calendar invites that end up being one hour later in my calendar than when the meeting really starts. I found out that it is a limitation/bug in how calendar services on the Mac read the timezone information. I also discovered that if I simply change all occurrences of "GMT" in the .ics file to "Europe/London" then the even invite loads up correctly in calendar. Therefore, can someone point me to how I can create an automator/applescript workflow that:

1. Fishes out the .ics attachments from the e-mail messages by searching for a message from a specific address that has the word "Invitation:" in the subject.
2. Saves the .ics attachment
3. Replace all occurrences of "GMT" with "Europe/London"
4. Loads the .ics file into the default calendar application

Many thanks for any help you can provide.

 

[Kaveman]

Calendar > Advanced > Turn on Time Zone support.

 

[W.J.]

Hi Kaveman. Trust me, I've done that and much more. It does not solve this issue. It is a well-documented bug in Mac OS X for many years. Both calendar app and BusyCal suffer from it. It has to do with how Groupwise specifies the .ics file that Mac OS X simply gets confused with. Is an automator workflow feasible?

 

[Kaveman]

AppleScript should be fine for this but I don't know about 3. Replace all occurrences of "GMT" with "Europe/London" mail. Is the .ics file a text file?
If so then AppleScript, I would move the invites into a separate Mailbox folder and just process that folder, you could use a mail rule to do that.