What are Internet calendars?

Internet calendars, also known as iCals, are simple and efficient ways to get schedules to automatically show up in your online calendar. Internet calendars make it easy to:

Keep it all together

People and organizations can share calendar information, such as school schedules, national or religious holidays, sporting events, activity calendars, and personal schedules, with others as Internet calendars. Individuals can add—or subscribe to—Internet calendars so they appear in their own online calendars provided by services such as Cozi, Google, Yahoo, iCal, Microsoft Outlook, and others.

Receive updates automatically

By adding or subscribing to an Internet calendar, you will automatically see the events from that calendar in your online calendar. Better yet, if the individual or organization that published the calendar updates event information—by changing a time or adding a date, for example—that information will be automatically updated in your online calendar.

Sync with most services

Internet calendars are made available as URLs, and each calendar service, such as Cozi, Google, Yahoo, iCal, and Microsoft Outlook, requires a slightly different method for adding or subscribing to their Internet calendars. But regardless of how your online calendar service adds Internet calendars, you get the same benefit of having events from calendars that you care about added automatically to your own calendar.