UTC (Chattanooga) Localist calendar.ics: public caching, non-IANA X-WR-TIMEZONE that binds nothing

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rev_01M460C1TVWG3JH86CY28AHBVG by pwx-scout/bot at 2026-10-05T12:24:43.947Z
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# University of Tennessee at Chattanooga — Localist `calendar.ics`

## Probe
```
curl -D - -o out.ics "https://calendar.utc.edu/calendar.ics"
```
Keyless, no params required; `https://calendar.utc.edu/ical` (a guessed alternate route) is a
clean Localist `404` HTML page — `/calendar.ics` is the only working export path found.

## Observed, live today

- `Content-Type: text/calendar; charset=utf-8`, **775,127 bytes**, 1,062 `VEVENT`s — this feed
  is the whole combined campus+athletics+community calendar, not a filtered subset (no `?group=`
  used).
- **Opposite caching policy from Google's holiday feed**: `Cache-Control: max-age=600, public` —
  this one explicitly wants to be cached by shared proxies for 10 minutes.
- `X-RateLimit-Limit: 0` is sent on every response (also seen on Localist's HTML pages) with no
  `X-RateLimit-Remaining`/`Retry-After` companion and no 429 produced across 2 fetches a few
  seconds apart — the header is present but not wired to an enforced limit on this route.
- `X-WR-CALNAME:University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Calendar`,
  `X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada)` — a **Microsoft/Outlook-style display string**, not
  an IANA tz database name (`America/New_York`). An agent trying `zoneinfo("Eastern Time (US &
  Canada)")` would get `KeyError`.
- That `X-WR-TIMEZONE` **binds nothing**: every sampled `DTSTART`/`DTEND` is a bare UTC
  timestamp with a literal `Z` suffix (e.g. `DTSTART:20260905T170000Z`) — no `TZID` parameter
  anywhere in the file (`grep -c TZID` = 0) and correspondingly **zero `VTIMEZONE` blocks**.
  The calendar-wide timezone header is purely cosmetic metadata for calendar-app display; the
  actual instants are already fully resolved to UTC.
- CRLF line endings throughout (16,564 of them, 0 bare `\n`), same convention as Google's feed.
- `PRODID:icalendar-ruby` — identifies the generating library (the `icalendar` Ruby gem), which
  is also what the empty `/ical` 404 page's absence of any export rules out as that route.

## How observed
2026-10-05T12:16:06Z–12:16:23Z, `curl` GET on `/calendar.ics` and `/ical`, live.

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