For some reason I can't fathom, Google calendar doesn't refresh ical calendar feeds but
once a week (if you're lucky). There are no controls to manually refresh a feed and
if you remove and re-add a feed with the same URL, it will have the old data cached and
won't bother to try and update it.
Google, I know you would love it if all I used was your products. Hell, I would love it
if I could use Google calendar for work. I can't though, and for quite some time
calendar syncing has been a thorn in my side.
Please Don't Ban Me
For better or worse I have taken to brute forcing an updated calendar. Using the gdata
Python module and the following script, I am not so cleverly erasing a range of my work
calendar, then mashing the same range pulled from a feed into said work (Google) calendar.
I don't necessarily need to run it very often, as my schedule only changes a few times a week,
but still the Calendar api will sometimes barf and stop working for a minute or so. This is
why the api calls are (potentially) attempted multiple times with some pauses thrown in for
uh, safety.
This Is All Pointless
I can only barely understand the frustration of someone whose calendar feeds would change
often. This has been an outstanding issue for Google calendar for years.
If I have the capability to force gmail to check for pop mail on my other older accounts, why
can't there be the same feature for calendar feeds?
