Re: [Evolution] Webcal and TimeZones

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 01:55 -0800, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 10:38 +0100, Ron wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 01:30 -0800, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 09:50 +0100, Ron wrote:
> > > > I am working on some ical stuff integrating an ical J2EE container into
> > > > evolution. And the string "software_studio/olson" whatever is definitly
> > > > not needed. I use the standard Timezone implementation from java and
> > > > evolution picks it up without any problem. 
> > > >
> > > > Can you send me a complete VEVENT with so I can play with it a bit?
> > >
> > > I had downloaded the file to look at it.  I attached the whole thing.
> > > It isn't that big.
> >
> > Thanks When I import it in evolution (2.0.2) it shows correcty as being
> > from 18:00 to 21:00 (Europe/Amsterdam timezone here) That is a 6 hour
> > difference. I'll load it into the j2ee container this evening
>
> Interesting..... OK.  I tried an experiment.  I took the file, deleted
> everything except for the file header, timezone info, and one VEVENT.
> Then I imported it into Evolution.  That one event shows the correct
> time shift.  Why is it that the importer knows how to properly shift the
> timezone, but the webcal interface doesn't?
>
> For reference, the webcal URL is:
> webcal://icalx.com/public/bgalland/200532NASCAR32Schedule.ics
>
> I tried changing the "webcal" part to "http" and it made no difference.
the http backend was missing a few lines of code to use the timezones in
the remote ics file. I just sent a patch to evolution-hackers to fix
this.
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>