Re: [Evolution] Time Zone curiosities with EWS

[kodiak <ultraviolett2 arcor de>]

Hi,
I just build data-server,ews,evolution again and defined new all day events with
OWA and evolution. All fine now for me :)

No TZ is created in evo, and OWA shows all day event!

Cheers,
Kodiak

On Mi, 2015-08-12 at 14:48 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 10:43 +0200, kodiak wrote:
> > I just tested the latest git master (data-server,ews,evolution) and
> > created a new all day event in evolution. OWA and Outlook show the 
> > correct time span of that event (e.g. "00:00 - We 00:00" on an all 
> > day event on Tuesday), but the event is not marked as an all day
> > event.
>
>       Hi,
> right, I missed that detail, though it seemed like the all-day flag is
> treated differently by the Exchange server (see my previous email).
> After some tests, the Exchange 2013 also means "all day" as "all day".
> My fault (incomplete testing of the change). It's fixed in git master
> of evolution-ews now.
>
> > I observed that the Exchange is updating the event of evolution
> > after few seconds the event was saved.
>
> That's right, because the server can change the event on save, like
> adding default alarm or similar automated server-side changes, thus
> evolution-ews fetches the event back to see what was actually stored
> on the server.
>
> > Evolution creates the event
> > w/o a TZ, and Exchange adds one and sends the update back to
> > Evolution, which then shows a TZ (fortunately the correct one).
>
> This is not true for me after the patch. Did you restart also
> background processes, namely evolution-calendar-factory? Try to run it
> on a terminal like:
>    $ EWS_DEBUG=2 /usr/libexec/evolution-calendar-factory -w
> then run evolution and repeat the steps. You should see a raw
> communication between the server and the evolution-ews, where I see
> that the timezone is posted to the server (search for
> "messages:CreateItem" (quotes for clarity only) in the log). Of
> course, what form of the timezone depends on the server version (the
> EWS protocol evolved during the 2007, 2010 and 2013 servers), and I'm
> testing with the 2013 server.
>       Bye,
>       Milan
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