Re: [Evolution] Google import of Evolution iCal export

[Chenthill <pchenthill novell com>]

Hi Saikat,
        As borup has mentioned, the VTIMEZONE component should be present.
AFAIK the timezone component is added only if its not present as part in
ical library http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libical/zoneinfo/ . How are
you exporting it, just copying the calendar.ics file from ~/.evolution
or publishing the data somewhere in the web ? Please file a bug in
www.bugzilla.gnome.org providing the information and assign it to
pchenthill novell com 

thanks, Chenthill.
On Sun, 2006-04-16 at 12:00 -0400, Saikat Guha wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Google calendar (calendar.google.com) doesn't seem to like Evolution
> iCal files; I am trying to track down whether it is a problem with
> Google's import, or evolution's export.
>
> Looking at the differences between iCal files that Google is happy with,
> and the iCal file generated by Evolution 2.6, the main difference seems
> like Evolution generates timezone labels on start and end dates as
> follows:
>
> DTSTART;TZID=/softwarestudio.org/Olson_20011030_5/America/New_York:20060324T072000
>
> while Google uses GMT labels:
>
> DTSTART:20060324T132000Z
>
> I suspect Google doesn't recognize the TZID inserted by Evolution. If I
> interpreted the iCal RFC correctly, it would seem that the VTIMEZONE
> stanza in the iCal file is used to bind the symbolic name used to a
> timezone definition; this stanza is missing in the exported file. I
> couldn't find any default behavior in the RFC for a user agent that
> doesn't understand the TZID symbolic name lacking a matching VTIMEZONE
> stanza.
>
> Is the problem of Google being unable to import Evolution files a
> problem with Google's parser, or Evolution's export?
>
> cheers,
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