Edit ICS Invite for Timezone

Questions & Suggestions
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Hello!

I recently discovered a bug in ICS invites from Microsoft Teams where the time zone identifier (TZID) is listed as "Pacific Standard Time" which is not a valid TZ time zone per this listing.

This usually is not a problem, except that when my CRM application (Daylite) imports this file, it incorrectly shares it with other Calendar applications because of the invalid TZID.

I have asked Marketcircle (who makes Daylite) to fix this, but in the meantime the simple fix would be to edit the ICS to replace the line that says:

TZID:Pacific Standard Time

with a line that says

TZID:America/Los_Angeles

Is there a way to do this easily from Keyboard Maestro with a selected ICS attachment in Mail? I'd love for it to make that change, then open the file with Daylite.

Thank you!

2

This is not too hard:

  1. Save the Mail ICS attachment to a file with a specified path
  2. Use the KM Search and Replace action with the file path as it source, and this:

Search for:
TZID:Pacific Standard Time

Replace with:
TZID:America/Los_Angeles

3

Thank you @JMichaelTX!

I'm not quite sure how to get the path into KM. Lets say I have the file saved on my desktop and it is selected in Finder. Is there a way for KM to get the path of the selected file in Finder, read it, make the replacement, and save it?

I feel like I'm close here but not quite there.
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Yes. You have it in your Macro. The KM Variable "OrigICS" will contain the path of the file.
You just need to change your Search and Replace to operate on a file instead of a variable:

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That worked - thank you!

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