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If I share a calendar with someone else and we end up with clashing events, how can I tell who "got there first"?

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There's no way to do that via the web interface. If you're happy to get down and dirty with the the Calendar Data API, then you can get the creation and last-modified timestamps from any event in any of the calendars you're subscribed to.

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Sounds like you need to detect a "date created" flag of some kind. I see a "date published" flag in the Calendar API docs, referring to the .xml format of calender entries. I would go and examine the developer API docs.

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The date published flag is the answer. The quick and dirty way to get the info is to enter



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You can locate the date created and date modified for an event by examining the .ics file for the calendar with a text editor. Download the .ics file for your calendar from calendar.google.com > Settings > Calendar > Calendar

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