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I just wanted to add this here for anyone who might find it useful. Google released a new Calendar entry shortcut that I was able to use as a button action to open up a user’s Google Calendar and let them immediately add an entry. Right now it opens the desktop version of calendar entry in the mobile browser, so it’s not ideal from a UX/UI perspective, but it’s quick!

I added a Calendar URL column in a sheet and pointed it to “cal.new”. Then I added a button with an ‘Open Link’ action that uses that URL column.

Here’s the article for reference:

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Thanks for this! the &format=gcal is still there however…

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@BigMac Same here, I also tried to set the format this way: `2016-05-26T15:00:00-00:00 (with static time offset) but 1 hour is added by default… :face_with_raised_eyebrow: anybody has found a solution? Very cool feature btw

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This method helped me:

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Continuing this conversation because I really want this to work:

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You can use my notifications script to do this without using a 3rd party and append the necessary info to allow it to be added to google calendars.

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Sorry, my post may have been misleading. By zulu, I meant the ISO format. Back in the day, Glide really struggled with different date formats, so I believe they introduced the underlying ISO format to be more globally recognized and properly convert to the user’s region format. With the exception of the log sheets, which I believe are possibly zulu/gmt (probably server) time, all dates and times are stored as local time to the user since that is being calculated on the user’s device.

The only solution I can think of is to get the user’s local time zone and do the math to store it as a true zulu/gmt time.

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Ya, that’s what I was afraid of…Glide has made huge strides in figuring out date/time issues across timezones etc, but scenarios like this (automations/webhooks that use the timezones) still occur.

I also noticed issues when sorting by timestamp. If somebody half the World away is writing to the same log as I am, sorting is off.

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Indeed.

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Epale @Robert_Petitto

I am sure you already thought about this but here it goes.

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Thanks for thinking of a solution! The issue I’m facing is that the 5 you’re referring to is different for everyone using the app based on where they’re at in the world.

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Isn’t the solution just to collect the users timezone offset when they sign up, and store that in their user profile?

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Ultimately yes. The tricky thing is daylight savings time. Probably doable with an if then else column. Thinking maybe a drop down on the user profile sheet. If then else to check what the date is determined if it’s a -5 or -4 for example. And then only allow the add to calendar button if that information is filled out in the profile.

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I’m also using only glide tables, so importing the list of available time zones is not going to be fun.

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I know! Glide needs a current timezone column! :grin: @Mark

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mmm, Glide Tables are great, but the problem is you continually run into dead ends when it comes to integrating with external services.

I wouldn’t mind betting that there would be an API out there somewhere that would return a current GMT offset given a set of co-ordinates. But even if there is, it won’t help you as there would be no way to get that data back into your Glide Table

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Exactly. Oh well.

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Still want an upgrade over this workaround, but you can copy them all into a Sheet, have a “Moved?” boolean column.

Then show them as an inline list in the app, filter by Moved is not true, have a custom action to add row to the Glide Table and set the Moved column to true. I have been doing this recently.

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Does this still work if I didnt start with a Google Sheet? The app is built completey with a Glide table.

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Oh that’s a no go then. Due to cases like this I always start with a Google Sheet to have a fallback option.