From: Jan Tatarik <jan.tatarik@gmail.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: iCalendar integration - time zone issue
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 23:58:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mwlao89b.fsf@nb-jtatarik2.xing.hh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9hbdlil.fsf@topper.koldfront.dk> ("Adam \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Sj\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?\=C3\=B8gren\=22's\?\= message of "Mon, 11 Nov 2013 16:08:02 +0100")
On Mon, Nov 11 2013, Adam Sjøgren wrote:
> I am throroughly enjoying the integration of emails with text/calendar
> parts and Gnus/org-mode. It is really nice that I don't have to open a
> remote desktop to a Windows machine to do calendaring.
> Recently a problem has popped up (there is always a catch). For some
> reason, appointments are shown / stored 1 hour earlier than they were
> supposed to in Gnus/org-mode.
> So in Gnus I see:
> Time: <2013-11-15 Fri 13:30-14:00>
> but in Outlook the meeting actually is 14:30-15:00.
> When I look at the "raw" VCALENDAR entry, I see this:
> DTSTART;TZID=Romance Standard Time:20131115T143000
> DTEND;TZID=Romance Standard Time:20131115T150000
> which makes me guess that somehow the code doesn't know that "Romance
> Standard Time" is the same as +0100 (CET), which I am in.
> Does this sound like a plausible guess, or does Gnus look at some other
> fields (instead/as well)? Any ideas for fixing it?
Can you post the whole vcalendar? That would help.
In any case, there should be a VTIMEZONE section with a definition of
the timezone used in DTSTART. Something like
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:W. Europe Standard Time
BEqGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:16010101T030000
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:16010101T020000
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
If there's no definition for the Romance Standard Time, gnus-icalendar
won't be able to adjust for the DTSTART/DTEND timezones.
If the definitions is there, then we have a bug and I would be doubly
interested in the actual VCALENDAR contents.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-11 22:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-11 15:08 Adam Sjøgren
2013-11-11 22:58 ` Jan Tatarik [this message]
2013-11-11 23:29 ` Adam Sjøgren
2013-11-12 9:07 ` Jan Tatarik
2013-11-12 9:14 ` Adam Sjøgren
2013-11-12 13:08 ` Jan Tatarik
2013-11-12 17:27 ` Adam Sjøgren
2013-11-27 17:04 ` Mario Peter
2013-11-27 23:54 ` Jan Tatarik
2013-11-28 20:22 ` Jan Tatarik
2013-11-28 21:20 ` Jan Tatarik
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