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I have been struggling to get CiviEvents to show up on a drupal calendar for some time, and kept running into issues where an event would be shown on the calendar several hours after it is scheduled.  For example, today I created a meeting event for 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM.  It looked fine in CiviCRM, and the iCal feed would be displayed correctly in other calendars (like Mozilla Sunbird).  However the drupal calendar would shift this meeting to 4:00 AM the next morning, 10 hours later.   So I went digging for where the problem occurs, and found the following.

CiviEvents iCal feed uses a format that looks like:
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071114T230000Z

This is a little unusual since most iCal sites use this:
DTSTART:20071114T230000Z

When I edited ICal.tpl to remove the VALUE=DATE part, suddenly it works.  Since other calendars handle it correctly it seems likely that this is a bug in the drupal calendar module rather than civicrm.  However for now I have made this change in ICal.tpl so at least it is usable.

u39851308:~/home > diff ICal.tpl.orig ICal.tpl     
15,16c15,16
< DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:{$event.start_date|crmICalDate}
< DTEND;VALUE=DATE:{$event.end_date|crmICalDate}
---
> DTSTART:{$event.start_date|crmICalDate}
> DTEND:{$event.end_date|crmICalDate}

Hope this is helpful.

From what little I know about it, VALUE=DATE is only used when you want the time of an event to be ignored.  VALUE=DATE-TIME is the default and would be more appropriate here since we will be passing a time for our events.
Thanks.

The tpl has been fixed and this change is now part of the 1.9 distro

lobo