Re: [Evolution] Calendar: changing time zones of all appointments?

[Christopher Thom <cthom astro swin edu au>]

Quoth Viktor Stansvik:

> The question:
> Yesterday I added my class schedule for school to the calendar of 
> Evolution, but today I realized that the time zone set for all 
> "appointments" was wrong (it was set to UTC while I'm GMT+1). So now I 
> wonder, is there some clever way to change the timezone of all the 
> appointments in a certain calendar, or do I have to do i all by hand 
> (that would mean a lot of clicks)?

yup. In fact, I did this just a few days ago. Quit evolution and shut down 
the data server, using
evolution --force-shutdown

Now find the correct calendar in 
$HOME/.evolution/calendar/local/<something>

on my system, they're a seemingly random string of numbers.  If it's a 
newly created calendar, ls -lrt will show you the latest one.

In that directory, edit the calendar.ics file, which is an XML file. 
Replace en masse the incorrect timezone with the correct one with sed, 
your favourite editor etc.  In emacs you can use M-x replace-string - sed 
will be more flexible.

Now restart evolution and you should be fine.

cheers
chris
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