What time zones does Outlook 2007 support in iCalendar invites?

Question

I understand Outlook only "partially" conforms to the standard. Does Microsoft have a published spec on what they do conform with?

I need a list of the available time zone id's I can use for Outlook meeting invites.

I'm using ical4j to build my invite. I found the ical4j-zoneinfo-outlook project, and it works for the basic America/Chicago and America/New_York time zones. Overall I can't get a list of the complete available id's from this library, and it won't support basic "GMT-6:00".

Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

The best way to get a full list of timezone ids for iCal4j is to check the http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook website. This is the source for ical4j's timezones.

Note that you still need to either manually or programmatically traverse the site to get all the valid ids.