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I have Outlook (at work) and Google Calendar (at home) and synchronising them through HTTP is completely unreliable. They seem to mess the time zone all the time, sometimes they publish in UTC, sometimes not, with the consequence of having meeting always at the wrong time.

I really don't understand how these 2 major providers cannot fix what seems to me such a basic feature.

If using my own system would solve it, I'd do it immediately, but I am afraid that it would be just the same: meeting created on Outlook and imported with 2 hours difference.



Timezones across google products have been hopelessly broken across apps for decades. I'm sure the AI devs will get to it tout de suite now tho.


They have little financial incentive to solve it because it helps with lock in.

Also, alot of companies actually prohibit syncing between personal and work due to data leakage issues.




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